The Famished Road
$51.50
- Hardcover
624 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
‘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 are made destitute.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594019 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594016 |
| Author: | Ben Okri, Vanessa Guignery |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 642g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 135mm x 212mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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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 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.
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