2.5
Dangerous Love
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From the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road, a classic story of doomed love in a country trying to come to terms with its violent past.
An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri’s most accessible and most disarming novels.
Omovo is an office worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father’s second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but his most important relationship is with Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion—not because she doesn’t return his love, but because they can never be together.
Against the backdrop of Nigeria’s civil war, Ben Okri creates an atmosphere where passion takes on a wholly different dimension as danger, greed, hunger, and betrayal loom at every turn.
An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri’s most accessible and most disarming novels.
Omovo is an office worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father’s second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but his most important relationship is with Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman whom he loves with an almost hopeless passion—not because she doesn’t return his love, but because they can never be together.
Against the backdrop of Nigeria’s civil war, Ben Okri creates an atmosphere where passion takes on a wholly different dimension as danger, greed, hunger, and betrayal loom at every turn.
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“The efficacy of being human is atrocious. An individual, no matter how successfully he/she chooses to live his/her life, will almost always be thwarted by someone whose looking-glass differs from the individual at hand. In his novel Dangerous Love, Ben Okri attempted to re-create a similar world. The usage of the word 're-create' is intentional. In the introduction to the 2014 edition of the novel, Okri wrote, "I hope amongst my novels this one achieves something I had long sought, to portray a living moment and through that to reveal history, culture, society, the depths, the surfaces, and the mystery of being human."
Set in a war-stricken Nigeria, Dangerous Love is a love story of an artist and a married woman. The braided narrative of personal as well as the "history, culture, society" that the author seeked to portray revealed what can be called as the consciousness of a person as opposed to the teeming chaos of the nation. Okri, in my humble opinion, won my heart through his documentation of social history via fiction. As a storyteller, however, he failed.
The novel fell short of speaking to me on the grounds of its narration. Often repetitive and verbose for its own good, the deeply ruminative stance of the novel felt a little out of place. This, however, shouldn't act as a deterrence to the author. His storytelling in fiction didn't work for me but as a poet, he will always have a very special place in my heart.”
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About Ben Okri
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 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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