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This novel, a winner of the 1991 booker prize, is a classic of magical realism with a distinctively african twist. And the river became a road and branched out to the whole world. The famished road, which won the man booker prize for ben okri in 1991, is the. The famished road ben okri s dreamlike tale of postcolonial nigeria has many fans, but for me it was a long nightmare. Okri shares with garcia marquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. The narrator, azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the. Okri, ben 1991, the famished road, archer books, new york.
Mar 31, 2015 the famished road ebook written by ben okri. Murdo macleod for the guardian t he famished road is fed by the dreams of literature. In ben okris the famished road 1991, the thick bushes and forests of west africa are being cleared to make way for roads and house foundationspiles of brick and cement were everywhere okri 2003. Ben okri has published 8 novels, including the famished road, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. The sheer bulk of episodes, many of which are repetitious in their evocation of supernatural phenomena, tends to slow narrative momentum, but they build to a powerful, compassionate vision of modern africa and the magical heritage. Some twenty years after the publication of ben okri s 1991 booker prize winning novel, the famished road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spiritchild azaro.
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