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The Famished Road
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The Famished Road

Ben Okri
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Ben Okri’s beautifully written and moving novel combines fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now to convey Nigerian peasant life in a changing world. It is the most ambitious as well as one of the most fully realised of the year’s novels. It brings a distinctively black African way of writing and seeing things into the mainstream of European fiction. ‘ Jeremy Treglowan, Chairman of the Booker Prize judges 1991.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Everyman
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 October 2021
Pages
624
ISBN
9781841594019

Ben Okri’s beautifully written and moving novel combines fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now to convey Nigerian peasant life in a changing world. It is the most ambitious as well as one of the most fully realised of the year’s novels. It brings a distinctively black African way of writing and seeing things into the mainstream of European fiction. ‘ Jeremy Treglowan, Chairman of the Booker Prize judges 1991.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Everyman
Country
United Kingdom
Date
7 October 2021
Pages
624
ISBN
9781841594019

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