THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, and GUARDIAN all named it one of the most anticipated novels of 2019. 'Where fiction's master of enchantments confronts a true horror and produces a work of beauty, grace, and uncommon power without blinking or flinching' MARLON JAMES is the 2015 Man Booker Prize winner. Ben Okri's impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably similar to our own. A young woman named Amalantis is arrested for asking a question in a world that is uncomfortably similar to our own. Her inquiry is as follows: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis goes missing, her lover Karnak goes in search of her. He searches desperately at first, then with increasing clarity. To find Amalantis, he must first comprehend the significance of her question.