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The Famished Road

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The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens 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. 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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ISBN: 9780099929307
Publication date: 6th February 1992
Author: Ben Okri
Publisher: Vintage Classics an imprint of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 592 pages
Series: The Famished Road Trilogy
Primary Genre Literary Fiction

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