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The Famished Road

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Description for The Famished Road Paperback. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 37. Weight in Grams: 472.

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‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’


The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099929307
SKU
9780099929307
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About Ben Okri
Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the ... Read more

Reviews for The Famished Road
This is a book to generate apostles. People will be moved and, with stars in their eyes, will pass on the word
Time Out
Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence. As one startling image follows the next, The Famished Road begins to read like an epic poem that happens to touch down just this side ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Famished Road


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