The Famished Road
of Ben Okri
Series: The Famished Road Trilogy #1
Description
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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512 pages
- Publisher Anchor Books
- Publication Date June 1st 1993
- First Publication 10/28/91
- Language English
- ISBN 9780385425131
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Nigeria']
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