The Famished Road, Paperback

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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.

Despre autor

Ben Okri

scriitor nigerian · n. 1959

Ben Okri este un romancier și poet nigerian. Okri este considerat unul din principalii autori africani din literatura post-modernă și post-colonială tradițională și a fost comparat cu autori precum Salman Rushdie și Gabriel García Márquez. În 1991 a câștigat Premiul Booker.