The Famished Road: Introduction by Vanessa Guignery
Hardcover
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0593320255
ISBN13: 9780593320259
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 616
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593320259
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 616
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A beautiful hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Nigerian author Ben Okri's lushly imaginative novel, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991. The narrator of The Famished Road is a spirit-child who exists between life and death, destined to an endless cycle of death and rebirth. But this time, born with a smile on his face, Azaro begins to fall in love with life and to rebel against his fate. The story the child tells flows between the difficulties of the land of the living and the carefree world of spirits. Okri infuses a vivid portrait of an unnamed West African country with the rich traditions of African mythology and the result is a powerfully haunting masterpiece.
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