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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Man Booker Prize: "Okri shares with Garc í a M á rquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece" ( The Boston Sunday Globe ). Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, existing, according to the African tradition, between life and death. Born into the human world, he must experience its joys and tragedies. His spirit companions come to him often, hounding him to leave his mortal world and join them in their...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Unlock the more straightforward side of The Famished Road with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Famished Road by Ben Okri, which follows the spirit child Azaro as he navigates a world rife with poverty, violence and political instability. Unlike most spirit children, Azaro has chosen to remain in the world of the living instead of dying as an infant and being reborn, but his experience...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A potent combination of political, metaphorical, and mythical storytelling" from the prizewinning author of The Freedom Artist ( The Scotsman ). "Who can be certain where the end begins?" said Dad, shortly before he was arrested for the murder of the carpenter . This novel, the conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Man Booker Prize winner The Famished Road follows the spirit-child Azaro, who travels between the worlds of the living and the...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set in an African village, this follow-up to the Man Booker Prize-winning novel is "sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy . Fraught with wild visions" ( The Times ). "All is not well in the African village where Azaro lives. The child narrator of poet and novelist Okri's The Famished Road who had outwitted death in the previous book, again relates the oppressive events that continue to plague his village and his family. While political factionalization...
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