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Ben Okri The Famished Road (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Famished Road
- Publication Name
- The Famished Road
- Title
- The Famished Road
- Subtitle
- Man Booker Prize Winner
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0385425139
- EAN
- 9780385425131
- ISBN
- 9780385425131
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 1993
- Release Date
- 01/05/1993
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 12.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Magical Realism, Literary
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385425139
ISBN-13
9780385425131
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2558583
Product Key Features
Book Title
Famished Road
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Magical Realism, Literary
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6015.I3
Reviews
"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 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, "A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 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 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 , "A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language." -- The New York Times Book Review "A masterpiece if one ever existed." -- The Boston Globe "Dazzling, hypnotic...a true feast for the word hungry." -- San Francisco Chronicle, "A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language." --The New York Times Book Review "A masterpiece if one ever existed." --The Boston Globe "Dazzling, hypnotic...a true feast for the word hungry." --San Francisco Chronicle, "A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 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 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
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Lccn
92-044168
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Dewey Edition
21
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