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The Famished Road

By Ben Okri

The Famished Road Contemporary literature

The Famished Road

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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. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
512
Release Date:
1993-05-01
Publication Date:
1993-05-01
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0385425139
ISBN13:
9780385425131
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
366 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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