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The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner
Reader Score
74%
74% of readers
recommend this book
Winner:Booker Prize -Novel (1991)
Set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, this rich, phantasmagorical novel follows Azaro, a "spirit-child" who has reneged on a pact with the spirit world. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this book is "something approaching a masterpiece of magic realism...." -- "The Wall Street Journal"
Book Details
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Publish Date: May 1st, 1993
- Pages: 512
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.90in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780385425131
- Categories: • Literary• Fantasy - General• Cultural Heritage
About the Author
BEN OKRI's books have won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the prestigious International Literary Prize Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore 1993. The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. He was born in Minna, Nigeria.
Praise for this book
"A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language." --The New York Times Book Review
"A mesmerizing vision of modern Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a peculiarly sentient child.... The Famished Road is a quintessential African novel." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A mesmerizing vision of modern Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a peculiarly sentient child.... The Famished Road is a quintessential African novel." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A stunning work, suspenseful and haunting, the product of one of the lushest imaginations on record." --The Plain Dealer
"A masterpiece if one ever existed." --The Boston Globe
"Dazzling, hypnotic ... a true feast for the word hungry." --San Francisco Chronicle