The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age

By Ben Okri

Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint.

This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist: the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams.

Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting - both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision.

Who can say which came first, the word or image, when both grew together out of a long friendship and a creative symbiosis. What if Calvino and Magritte had combined inspiration? What if we could see our world again with a child's eyes? What if there really is a magic lamp?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786694506
• ISBN13: 9781786694508
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.3"