Author(s): Okri, Ben,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/09/2019,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Head of Zeus,
Published By: Head of Zeus,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781788549615
Description: 

One of 2019's most anticipated novels in THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES and GUARDIAN.

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri.

In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization.

To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth.

The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society. In Ben Okri's most significant novel since the Booker Prize-winning The Famished Road, he delivers a powerful and haunting call to arms.