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In Arcadia

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From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired.

A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as 'Et in Arcadia Ego'.

'We never write the book we think we are writing. We never read the book we think we are reading' BEN OKRI.

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Head of Zeus
178408185X / 9781784081850
eBook (EPUB)
823.92
09/10/2014
United Kingdom
English
General
212 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Previously issued in print: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002 Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.