Description
From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travellers will find themselves drawn in to the mystery of the mountain reflected in the lake. One by one, they will be disturbed, enlightened, and transformed, each in a different way. The Age of Magic has begun. Unveil your eyes. ALSO BY BEN OKRI: Astonishing the Gods, In Arcadia, A Way of Being Free, Dangerous Love.
Genres
Collection
Publication
Head of Zeus (2001)
User reviews
LibraryThing member Ma_Washigeri
Took me half the book but eventually I entered into the spirit of it and enjoyed it. Most other reviewers seem to give it either a panning or rave review so I might be missing something. As I finished it I felt it lacked depth - for me no resonances of folk or fairy tale, and no feeling of being
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rooted in a wider or deeper framework. Nicely done but did not lead me anywhere. Show Less
LibraryThing member AngelaJMaher
An unusual book that has a dream-like quality. Reality drifts in and out of fantasy in an exploration of meaning in life. Thought provoking, disconcerting, sometimes confusing, its philosophical dreaminess won't suit everyone, but it's worth a try.
Awards
Bad Sex in Fiction Award (Winner — 2014)
Original language
English