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The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385425131)
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xBOOKER PRIZE WINNER - A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits. - "A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language." --The New York Times Book Review
In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute.
Author: Ben Okri
ISBN-10: 0385425139
ISBN-13: 9780385425131
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1993
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute.
Author: Ben Okri
ISBN-10: 0385425139
ISBN-13: 9780385425131
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1993
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
By Ben Okri
xBEN OKRI's books have won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the prestigious International Literary Prize Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore 1993. The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. He was born in Minna, Nigeria.
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