by Ben Okri (Author)
Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die at the first oppurtunity, but after his birth, he broke the pact and continued to live. His spirit companions threatend to send seven spirits to reclaim him. So far, five have tried and failed, but the remaining two are the most dangerous of all. This continuation of the story of Azaro is rich with allegorical vision, and interwoven with the politics of Nigeria.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition, First Impression
Publisher: W&N
Published: 24 Aug 1998
ISBN 10: 1861591209
ISBN 13: 9781861591203
Book Overview: Author's other titles inc. The Famished Road , Songs of Enchantment , Astonishing the Gods , Dangerous Love , A Way of Being Free . Author won 1991 Booker Prize for The Famished Road and has also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize and the Premio Grinzane Cavour Prize.