TY - BOOK AU - Okri, Ben. TI - Astonishing The Gods SN - 9781784082550 U1 - 823.92 23 N1 - On Danger Love; On Astonishing the Gods; On the way of being free; On in Arcadia N2 - "The Hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, and goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it," Ben Okri writes in his new introduction to his classic novel. "I set out to find one thing, but found another. Maybe what seeks us is better than what we seek." A young man finds himself living among invisible being who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly and fully for the first time ER -