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Title	:	The Famished Road (The Famished Road Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Ben Okri
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1993 by Anchor Books (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Magical Realism. Fantasy

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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.

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Original Title:	The Famished Road
ISBN:	0385425139 (ISBN13: 9780385425131)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Famished Road Trilogy #1
Setting:	Nigeria
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1991), Premio Grinzane Cavour Nominee for Narrativa Straniera (1994)

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Ratings: 3.73 From 10642 Users | 749 Reviews

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5 stars.....a monstrously beautiful piece of literature....a must read before you dieDecided to add two comments thatI gave to two Goodreads friends since I wrote such a flimsy little fragments in 2013 (when I was not writing reviews)"This book is so unbelievable. I have never read a book that was like one long dream sequence full of wonder, beauty and ugliness. It is incredible. This is in my top ten books of all time""You will die from the wonder. I cannot put into words the impact this book

In the month since I've finished The Famished Road it's managed to become less appealing and the worse parts have stuck more strongly in my mind. So I dropped it from three stars to two. I hate disliking books, so here's my attempt at articulating its weaknesses. Okri has some really well developed characters in here. Azaro's father is conflicted, torn between his natural viciousness and his desire to be gentle and kind to his family. The photographer is a great political symbol. Azaro himself

A very strange book. I found the first two thirds dull, densely dreamlike, and impenetrable. Then something caught fire, and the last third was absolutely riveting. In the final chapters, the camera pulls back and you realize that the book isn't just about a boy who is struggling to be "born"; it's about all of post-colonial Africa, struggling repeatedly to be born, and too often falling back into death. It needs to be read with Zimbabwe, or Liberia, or Sierra Leone, or Angola, or Uganda, or the

How will you create a 'Midnight's Children' for a nation where there is political stability and which continues to born and reborn again (unlike Saleem Shinai who at least was born along with the nation)? You create spirit child - a creature born as human though it didnt want to or expected to. And thus it struggles with the connection it still has with the unliving. So far, so good.The problem is that the book itself struggles with birth and rebirth. It seems like a bird who repeatedly takes

240315: later addition: well the guardian newspaper says it is the 25th anniversary since publication- so what are you waiting for? read it!review for third volume of 'the famished road' trilogy: this last of three novels by ben okri, the famished road series, is a great summation of themes introduced, elaborated, extended, from the other two. i read some reviewers who claim he merely includes more of the same, more fantastical, definitely african, images, thickening the stew but not creating

i am no expert but i think the reigning opinion amongst literary snobs is that magic realism is an embarrassing gimmick. braving the possible negative backlash, i have already put one hundred years of solitude on my favorites shelf. today, i'm going to take another leap of faith and confess that i also loved this one. i read this quite a while ago (in 2006 maybe) but tonight i don't want to sleep so i'm killing the time on goodreads randomly adding things. i am a real sucker for stories written

This was a 500 pages ride through a dream where the real world and the spirit world are interwoven at each step. To really appreciate this book the reader must be willing to let go of some rationale. I am one of those readers and I let myself be mesmerized.There isn't much of a plot in the way of a typical fantastical story. It is a view into the harsh, devastating world of an unspecified African community through the eyes of an abiku, a spirit child. The time changes, yet for the ones who