The Famished Road - The Famished Road Trilogy (Paperback)
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The Famished Road - The Famished Road Trilogy (Paperback)

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Published: 06/02/1992
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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.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099929307
Number of pages: 592
Weight: 405 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'This is a book to generate apostles. People will be moved and, with stars in their eyes, will pass on the word.' - Time Out

'Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence. As one startling image follows the next, The Famished Road begins to read like an epic poem that happens to touch down just this side of prose... When I finished the book and went outside, it was as if all the trees of South London had angels sitting in them.' - Linda Grant, Independent on Sunday

'In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child.' - Michael Palin

'Overwhelming - just buy it for its beauty.' - New Statesman

'The Famished Road is a masterpiece if one ever existed.' - Jay Parini, Boston Sunday Globe

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“The Famished Road”

The Famished Road in one tweet sized chunk:Six characters in search of a plot. A self-indulgent dream which seems to go on forever.Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child who has made a pact to remain alive only a short... More

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“Thank you Azaro”

The Famished Road changed my life. It opened my mind to a world that exists just beyond the reach of that which we know in the here and now.

It lit the 'what-if-it-is-all-true?' Question in me and one that... More

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