The freedom artist / written and read by Ben Okri.
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SoundPublisher: [London] : Head of Zeus, 2019Copyright date: ℗2019Description: 6 CDs (approximately 7 hr.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781789543889; 1789543886Subject(s): Disappeared persons -- Fiction | Government, Resistance to -- Fiction | Liberty -- Fiction | Missing persons -- FictionGenre/Form: Dystopian fiction. | Audiobooks. Performed by Ben Okri.Summary: An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own. In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society.
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"Who is the prisoner?" --Cover.
Unabridged.
Title from disc label.
Compact discs.
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own. In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society.
Performed by Ben Okri.
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