The Famished Road

by Ben Okri (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $8.70

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.45

  Ben Okri's beautifully written and moving novel combines fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now to convey Nigerian peasant life in a changing world. It is the most ambitious as well as one of the most fully realised of the year's novels. It brings a distinctively black African way of writing and seeing things into the mainstream of European fiction. ' Jeremy Treglowan, Chairman of the Booker Prize judges 1991.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.45

  This novel, winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, is set in a poor people's compound during the Nigerian civil war, and reflects the changes in Africa since 1960. It tells how a young boy's failure to subdue his spiritual powers has disturbing consequences for him and his parents.

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $13.40

  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. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.