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<p>In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's <b>Famished Road</b> has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's <i>Midnight's Children</i> or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's <b>One Hundred Years of Solitude</b>, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.</p> <p>The narrator, Azaro, is an <i>abiku</i>, 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.</p> <p><b>Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize</b> </p>

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Author

Chaim Potok, Chaïm Potok

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385720335

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (180 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14