The Famished Road by Ben Okri

592 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction fantasy magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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