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Ben Okri
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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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,
...Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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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...
“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...
Author
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize: “Okri shares with García Márquez 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...
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...