The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
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Author: Ben OkriEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-05-01
ISBN: 0385425139
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: "The Ghosts of Post-Colonial Africa"
Summary: 4 Stars
Spirits abound in Ben Okri's FAMISHED ROAD. Azaro, a young boy growing up in an unnamed African country enduring the throes of its pending independence, sees spirit forms all around him. Azaro lives in the interspaces between the living and the dead, which makes him prone to the attacks of supernatural creatures and the dark machinations of witches and necromancers. Okri provides such detailed depictions of Azaro's out of body experiences, relating them with so much hallucinogenic clarity and intensity that unwary readers will find certain passages disorienting. Heady, trippy stuff but well worth the expenditure of time and concentration. Magical realism at its very best.
(Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for Literature)
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