The Famished Road

Name: The Famished Road
Author: Ben Okri

by Ben Okri

Spirit child traverses magical and material realms in post-colonial Nigeria

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Ben Okri

Nigerian novelist and poet whose The Famished Road, a novel of spirit-child mythology and Nigerian poverty, won the Booker Prize in 1991. His fiction draws on Yoruba mythology and the African oral tradition. He is one of the most celebrated African writers of his generation.

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