The Famished Road by Ben Okri

500 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction fantasy magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
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BOOKER PRIZE 1991. `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. ...

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