The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Ben Okri's beautifully written and moving novel combines fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now to convey Nigerian peasant life in a changing world. It is the most ambitious as well as one of the most fully realised of the year's novels. It brings a distinctively black African way of writing and seeing things into the mainstream of European fiction. ' Jeremy Treglowan, Chairman of the Booker Prize judges 1991.
Ben Okri was born in Nigeria. His books have won several awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Paris Review Aga Khan prize for fiction, and the prestigious Premio Letterario Internazionale Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224038270 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224038273 |
| Title | The Famished Road |
| Author | Ben Okri |
| Series | Booker Prize Anniversary Edition S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1991 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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