ON DANGEROUS LOVE
‘Okri’s masterpiece to date… solid, convincing and classical.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Poetic writing of a very high order… tender, nightmarish, wise and soulful tragedy.’
Daily Telegraph
‘One comes to inhabit it as one reads… A reason for constant celebration.’
Scotland on Sunday
‘One of the world’s finest writers… A life-affirming, lyrical book.’
Options
‘A tough, ecstatic book.’
Independent on Sunday
‘No other contemporary author captures the ephemeral with as much success. Okri should easily pass the hundred year test.’
The Good Book Guide
‘Intelligent and moving.’
Spectator
‘The rippling, translucent style is deliberately pared down to tell a simple, memorable narrative of ambiguous love and disaster.’
Mail on Sunday
ON ASTONISHING THE GODS
‘A modern-day classic.’
Evening Standard
‘Amazing… This is as close as you can get to reliving the experience of a bedtime story.’
Guardian
‘Powerful, sensuous and philosophical.’
European
‘Graceful and enigmatic… Exciting, like a trip into a de Chirico landscape.’
Daily Telegraph
‘A new creation myth… a beautiful book… its mere task to make the impossible possible.’
Scotsman
‘A rare achievement… Fulfills Calvino’s prescription for lightness – being like a bird, rather than a feather… an impressive, brave, and often beautiful little book.’
New Statesman
ON A WAY OF BEING FREE
‘Okri imbues these essays with a writer’s insight… And he does so in an inimitably sinuous yet abstract style well suited to his theme… oblique, oneiric, rhapsodic, elliptical.’
Independent on Sunday
‘There can be no mistaking Okri’s passion and intelligence.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Okri is marvellously enthusiastic at promoting the poetic cause, pouring out his love for creativity in “The Joys of Storytelling” with a passionate reverence.’
Daily Express
‘Thoughtful, concise, cultivated and clear.’
Scotland on Sunday
‘Okri is at once as foreign and as British as Joseph Conrad.’
Daily Telegraph
ON IN ARCADIA
‘Incantatory beauty. Profound and enchanting.’
The Times
‘A charm and magic that is bright and striking and angry.’
Irish Times
‘Mixing a densely metaphysical approach with a delightfully lyrical style… a truly fascinating work, and a hugely ambitious one too.’
Scotland on Sunday
‘The shaman of modern British fiction.’
Independent
‘You cannot fault Okri for confronting the big issues and asking questions of our secular age that few of his contemporaries have the innocence and bravery to attempt.’
The Observer
‘Arresting and evocative.’
Times Literary Supplement
‘Okri has chosen a big and bold subject and a highly original approach to it.’
Herald
‘The journey has inspired writers from Homer to Chaucer onwards… Okri gives it an ultra-modern twist.’
Daily Mail
‘A riddling quest for enlightenment.’
Independent