Deemed by the Daily Mail to be a “showcase [for] his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination,” Prayer for the Living is a collection of 23 stories by Booker Prize-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri that take us from London to Byzantium to a printer’s shop in Spain, deftly blurring the lines between parallel realities while rendering darkness and magic nearly indistinguishable. The author ponders illusion versus reality with journalist and book critic Anderson Tepper, co-chair of the international committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
