The Famished Road

Informationen zum Autor Ben Okri Klappentext Ben Okri has published 8 novels, including The Famished Road , as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. He was born in Nigeria and lives in London. Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE ‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’ The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Okri
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.1992
• EAN: 9780099929307
• ISBN: 978-0-09-992930-7
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 37 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; The Famished Road; VINTAGE CLASSICS; The Famished Road; The Famished Road Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Nigeria, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)