Dangerous Love

1 About this book

Dangerous Love is a 1996 novel by Nigeria-born British author Ben Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s. It is a remake of an earlier book, The Landscapes Within (1981). It is set in a post civil-war Nigerian society in a Lagos compound. Dangerous Love follows a young artist named Omovo and the influence that corrupt politics has on his artistry in the ghettos of Lagos in Nigeria after the Civil War.

The book is more conventional and realist than Okri's previous works, it also does not have as many literary critiques due to its experimental nature.

Dangerous Love is considered a Künstlerroman, or a coming of age story following an artist and is noted to be an unfinished Künstlerroman due to the unfinished artistic development of the character Omovo in the novel.

The Landscapes Within and Dangerous Love are continuations of the work of the Nigerian authors Amos Tutuola and the Ghanaian author Ayi Kwei Armah in the exploration of the meaning of beauty.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Nigeria
• Social life and customs
• Slums
• Manners and customs
• Modern & contemporary fiction
• Literary fiction