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The Famished Road Book
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Amazon
Azario is a spirit child who is born 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. Combining fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now, this novel conveys the Nigerian peasant life in the changing world.
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Foyles
Winner of the Booker Prize 1991 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.
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BookDepository
The Famished Road : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099929307 : : 27 Jul 1992 : WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE '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' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death.
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Blackwell
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...
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Waterstones
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.
- 0099929309
- 9780099929307
- Ben Okri
- 6 February 1992
- Vintage
- Paperback (Book)
- 592
- New Ed
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