Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Okri, Ben
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Okri, Ben

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes...
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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Okri, Ben

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

$38.59
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Okri, Ben

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

$38.59
Author: Ben Okri
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples see each other in a new light.

A wise, enchanting novel about love, power, and our many selves--past and future, public and private--from the Booker Prize-winning author.

There are organizations for people who grieve, for alcoholics and other kinds of addicts. But if you've been devastated by the love of your life walking out on you, where the hell do you go?

On the 20th anniversary of the day her first husband left her, Viv decides to host an unconventional party for those burned by love. She successfully ropes in her reluctant second husband, Alan, and their friends Beatrice and Stephen, and when she meets the famed fortuneteller Madame Sosostris--last seen in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and rumored to be the secret to success of 5 prime ministers--she believes she's found the perfect act to headline her masquerade.

In a sacred wood in the south of France, the partygoers disguise themselves and wait eagerly for the great clairvoyant, who might be able to mend their broken pasts and brighten their futures. But the night soon goes awry, in a comically revealing way that causes our couples to question their relationships and the direction of their lives.

Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781635425284


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/20/2025
Shelf Awareness 03/08/2025

About the Author
Ben Okri is a playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, anthologist, and aphorist. He has also written film scripts. His works have won numerous national and international prizes, including the Booker Prize for Fiction. His books include the eco-fable Every Leaf a Hallelujah, the play Changing Destiny, the genre-bending climate fiction Tiger Work, the poetry collections A Fire in My Head and Mental Fight, and Wild, and the novels Astonishing the Gods, The Last Gift of the Master Artists, and Dangerous Love. In 2023 he received a knighthood for services to literature.
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