‘The Freedom Artist’ Is A Perfect Read For A Post-Truth Era – NPR

NPR’s Ilana Masad reviewed Ben Okri’s ‘The Freedom Artist’

“The Freedom Artist is an unsettling read — its tone lulled me, as if I were a child reading a fairy tale, into a sense of comfort, only to yank me to attention when it reminded me this wasn’t the Disney version, as it were, but the one with all the blood and injustice left in — but it is not hopeless. Hope is everywhere in it, because its very form — storytelling — is a slap in the face to the terror looming over it.”

Read the full review here