The Age of Magic

Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence * Independent on Sunday *
Part narrative, part philosophy, part allegory... this novel offers the reader not just a story, but a series of intriguing and revelations on the mysterious and blurring of the lines between life and death, illusion and reality, and good and evil' * Daily Mail *
A dreamlike modern fairytale... Strange and poetic' * The Times *
Like the best fairy tales it has lines of smoothly lyrical beauty. You have to applaud Okri for it. To get a novel that's not a novel, that so blithely eschews the structural conventions of the novel, from a Booker-winning novelist is fresh and revitalising * Irish Times *
As you'd expect from Okri, the emphasis is very much on the magical, beautifully written * Mail on Sunday *
Okri's tale of eight filmmakers at a lakeside hotel feels like a philosophical enquiry, in which the cast of characters operate as mouthpieces, there to speculate on the notion of Arcadia * Sunday Herald *
A sort of philosophical meditation on the idea of paradise. Okri's otherworldly literary approach has produced masterpieces * Independent on Sunday *