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Publisher details
- Author
- Ben Okri
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genres
- Fiction, Man Booker Prize winner, Spirituality
- Released
- 14 March, 1991
- ISBN
- 9780099929307
The Famished Road
Synopsis
Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story."Overwhelming - just buy it for its beauty" - New Statesman"A brilliant read, unlike anything you have ever read before...the message is universal" - The Times"It is a rich, provocative and hopeful vision of the world, stuffed full of drama and surprise-its literary lineage - the ease with which spirits move through every day life - is from ancient Greece and medieval romances" - Independent"Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence. As one startling image follows the next, The Famished Road begins to read like an epic poem that happens to touch down just this side of prose... When I finished the book and went outside, it was as if all the trees of South London had angels sitting in them" - Linda Grant, Independent on Sunday
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