Ben Okri – ‘The Age of Magic’ Talk

Okri’s book ‘The Famished Road’ is a treasure kept on many thousands of bookshelves, its mystical prose staying in many more memories. His latest book is an allegorical tale that follows eight film-makers heading for a Swiss mountain village to explore the meaning of life. Okri’s writing challenges the conventions of what may be expected of a novel, using the literary form he calls ‘fictive philosophy’. Come and hear from the creator of this hypnotically beautiful book.