num_pages: 159
description: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Famished Road comes this bewitching novel. It is a modern fable about the relationship between love, suffering and creativity. Set on an enchanted island, Astonishing the Gods is shot through with the gentle magic of Ben Okri's imaginative prose.
language: English
title: Astonishing the Gods
titlecomplete: Astonishing the Gods
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, African Literature, Novella, Nigeria, Africa, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1232
publisher: Orion Pub Co