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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Anchor Books
Publication date June 1, 1993
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780385425131
ISBN-10 0385425139
Dimensions 1.25 by 6 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.40 lbs.
Original list price $16.95
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
As his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, battles the evil spirits who are tempting him. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In 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 himself and the tale he tells is full of sadness and tragedy, but inexplicably he is born with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child, Azaro's loving parents are made destitute. The tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780385424769
 
With Ken Johnson | from Doubleday (June 1, 1992)
9780385424769 | details & prices | List price $22.50
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About: Azaro, a 'spirit-child' from a ghetto community in Africa, uses his instinctual memory from ancient times to see the hate and violence that keep his people trapped in poverty
Paperback
Book cover for 9780099535126 Book cover for 9780385425131
 
from Vintage Uk (August 6, 2009)
9780099535126 | details & prices | 592 pages | List price $10.30
About: In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic.
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Anchor Books (June 1, 1993)
9780385425131 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $16.95
About: As his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, battles the evil spirits who are tempting him

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