The Freedom artist

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,...

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Main Author: Okri, Ben (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2020].
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520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Political persecution  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Missing persons  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Prisons  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Truthfulness and falsehood  |x Political aspects  |v Fiction. 
655 7 |a Dystopian fiction.  |2 lcgft 
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