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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?

Product details

Published 07 Sep 2017
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 128
ISBN 9781786694508
Imprint Apollo
Illustrations Illustrated
Dimensions 0 x 0 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Ben Okri

Sir Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His child…

Illustrator

Rosemary Clunie

Rosemary Clunie is a painter, printmaker and video…

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