The Famished Road

Publisher details

Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Random House
Genres: Fiction, Man Booker Prize winner, Spirituality
Released: 14 March, 1991

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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

About the author

Ben Okri

Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including the Booker Prize winning The Famished Road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London.