{"product_id":"the-last-gift-of-the-master-artists","title":"The Last Gift of the Master Artists","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe moment before the world changed and innocence was lost – Ben Okri's breathtaking novel about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slavers restores the full vibrancy of a lost history to his Nigerian homeland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo lovers meet for the first time. One is the son of a king, struggling to find his place in the world, the other is the gifted daughter of a master craftsman from a famous but secretive tribe. The young people meet accidentally, just for a moment, by the river. They vow to meet again. When the girl fails to show up at the arranged time, the prince begins a search for her that takes him into the heart of the secretive tribe, and gives his own enemies the chance they have been hoping for to destroy him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMysterious ships are glimpsed, like ghosts, on the horizon, hidden in bays, glanced between trees in the forest. A white wind begins to blow through the world. And with it, things begin to disappear, songs, stories, sculptures, and finally people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThis book was previously published as\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Starbook \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ein 2008. It has been substantially rewritten. The first reception of the book did not reference the slavery aspects or saw them as allegorical. This re-publishing is a chance to put that right in the light of contemporary acknowledgement of historical and current injustices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eReviews for Ben Okri:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMarlon James\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booklify","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865492160832,"sku":"NEW BOOKS - 025","price":1299.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/8991\/2384\/files\/WhatsAppImage2026-04-20at12.43.22PM.jpg?v=1776767747","url":"https:\/\/booklify.pk\/products\/the-last-gift-of-the-master-artists","provider":"Booklify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}