The Famished Road
by Ben Okri · 1991
Literary Fiction · ranked #92 in category
Azaro is a spirit child — an abiku — who keeps choosing to remain in the world of the living rather than returning to the spirit world. His life in a Nigerian village is narrated in a torrent of vision, poverty, political upheaval and supernatural encounter. Okri's Booker Prize-winning novel is one of the great works of African magical realism.
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