The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner -- Ben Okri, Paperback James W. Douglass --New Scientist

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The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner -- Ben Okri, Paperback James W. Douglass --New ScientistIn 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