Winner of the Booker Prize for fiction, The Famished Road tells the story of Azaro, a spirit-child. Though spirit-children rarely stay long in the painful world of the living, when Azaro is born he chooses to fight death: "I wanted," he says, "to make happy the bruised Cited by: Set in an unnamed African village, Nigerian author Ben Okri’s novel The Famished Road () tells the story of Azaro who is a spirit child or abiku, a term used to describe a child who is destined to die before reaching puberty. A highly acclaimed work, The Famished Road received the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction and inspired the Radiohead single, "Street Spirit (Fade Out).". · "T hey named me Lazaro," explains the narrator of The Famished Road, Ben Okri's Booker winner. "But as I became a subject of much jest, and as many were uneasy with the connection between Author: James Purdon.
Ben Okri's dreamlike tale of post-colonial Nigeria has many fans, but for me it was a long nightmare. The Famished Road is pages of the worst kind of dream sequence. About Ben Okri Ben Okri is a Nigerian writer who is best-known for his Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road. He was born in Nigeria, although he spent part of his childhood in London and later returned to England to study comparative literature at the University of Essex. The Famished Road is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment () and Infinite Riches (). Published in London in by Jonathan Cape, the story of The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed African, most likely Nigerian, city. The novel employs a unique narrative style incorporating.
The Famished Road is a Booker Prize awarded novel by Nigerian writer Ben Okri. Literature critics relate this book to magical realism. It tells a story about a spirit-child Azaro. In a way, it is a story about personal growth, because we follow the main character on his famished road through the whole book. The Famished Road is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment () and Infinite Riches (). Published in London in by Jonathan Cape, the story of The Famished Road follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed African, most likely Nigerian, city. Ben Okri’s ‘The Famished Road’ has been called a novel written using the techniques of magical realism. I would say that if this magical realism, then it is magical realism on meth. This novel is Kafka meeting Marquez on a canvas prepared by Dali, with a bit of Stephen King added for seasoning.
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