BEN OKRI
Dangerous Love
An epic of daily life, DANGEROUS LOVE is a story of doomed love, of star-crossed lovers, separated not by their families, but by the very circumstances of their lives.
‘I hope among my novels this one achieves something I have long sought.’
– BEN OKRI.
“‘Dangerous Love’ is exactly what its title says, a direct engagement with danger and love and how much the passion of individuals can matter in a world that destroys people indiscriminately. . .[every character] in ‘Dangerous Love’ [is] fully realized — you know them intimately and are drawn to them with an intensity that has nothing to do with virtues or flaws but with the specific beauty and ugliness of individual souls inside bodies. Like an alchemist, Okri has channeled the ‘ancient, unyielding’ forces through a reordering of ‘familiar images,’ creating something universal at a time when the idea of the universal has long been thought impossible.”
– NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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