From an award-winning author comes this thrilling, experimental new novel exploring the darker elements of shamanism, desire, betrayal and friendship - across time and dimensions.
29th September 2025
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From an award-winning author comes this thrilling, experimental new novel exploring the darker elements of shamanism, desire, betrayal and friendship - across time and dimensions.
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'The power of this weird, haunting fiction is undeniable.' Guardian
'Vivid, brutal, moving and tender. This is heartfelt and immersive.' Joanne Harris'A delightful gourmet of magical, creative prose and masterful storytelling.' Alex WheatleIn contemporary London, Therese, Azacca, Emilien and Finn are kindred spirits, bound by their shared descent from the loving yet vengeful deity, Oni. Set with a sacred task by their god, they travel to an otherworldly plane - but one day, something returns with them.In the mountainous town of 17th-century Gethsemane, the mysterious arrival of Zulmira sparks a series of strange events that will leave the locals changed. As she settles into the community, these increasingly menacing miracles disrupt time and place, whilst the quartet discover the cost of their service to Oni.With the past and the present set to collide, Curandera is a mythic tale of rebirth and redemption, love and jealousy, and the magnetic workings of shamanism.'Mindbogglingly glorious.' Yvvette Edwards'I was blown away by Curandera and by the epic scale of Okojie's imagination and creativity . . . I loved it.' Louise Minchin'I'm in awe of Irenosen Okojie's burden of talent. Leave your rational mind behind with your phone and enter Curandera's spell.' Laline PaullCritic Reviews
I loved it. Vivid, brutal, moving and tender. This is heartfelt and immersive. -- Joanne Harris, author of CHOCOLAT
Okojie has served up a delightful gourmet of magical, creative prose and masterful storytelling. A rare talent. -- Alex Wheatle MBE
I'm in awe of Irenosen Okojie's burden of talent. Leave your rational mind behind with your phone and enter Curandera's spell. -- Laline Paull, author of THE BEES and POD
The power of this weird, haunting fiction is undeniable, largely due to a wonderfully inventive prose style that verges on the hallucinogenic while remaining bracingly grounded in the physical. -- Lisa Tuttle Guardian
Curandera is the mesmerising by-product of Okojie's extraordinary imagination and writing that is mindbogglingly glorious. -- Yvvette Edwards
With her trademark lyricism and inventiveness, Okojie takes us into different worlds . . . with an ease that runs as smooth as honey. -- Mahsuda Snaith
I was blown away by Curandera and by the epic scale of Okojie's imagination and creativity. Her original and lyrical use of language is hypnotic and visceral . . . I loved it. -- Louise Minchin
Curandera is an exhilarating experience of a novel that will take you on a hallucinatory trip into the soul and the phantasmagorical unknown. -- Bernardine Evaristo
The style is chimeric and delirious. -- Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday
About the Author
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular
and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review. She co-presented the BBC's Turn Up for The Books podcast, alongsideSimon Savidge and Bastille frontman Dan Smith. Her work has been optioned for the screen. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, theGordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded anMBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival.Product Details
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