Ben Okri on The Inheritors in The Irish Times
The Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri has written a stunning introduction to a new edition of Golding’s 1955 novel The Inheritors. This introduction, also published in The Irish Times, describes the book as a ‘strange dream’, and ‘perfectly written’.
The new edition is available now.
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