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Paperback:
9781905570768 | Rudolf Steiner Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $6.75
Hardcover:
9781597113014 | Aperture, February 24, 2015, cover price $75.00
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9781472617897 | Gardners Books, December 1, 2014, cover price $16.70
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9780143106692 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, June 5, 2012), cover price $15.00
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...read more
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9780385424769 | Doubleday, June 1, 1992, cover price $22.50 | also contains The Man Who Watched Batman: An in Depth Analysis of Batman: the Animated Series | About this edition: 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:
9780099535126 | Vintage Uk, August 6, 2009, cover price $10.30 | About this edition: In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic.
9780385425131 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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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9789584505811 | Norma S A Editorial, February 8, 2008, cover price $16.00
Tells the story of a prince and a maiden who are tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness are supremely important. This book aims to open up the nature of reality, where the essence of life is revealed, and the source of enchantment can be ours - where beauty, regeneration and fulfilment are perhaps possible.
Hardcover:
9781846040825 | Ebury Pr, August 16, 2007, cover price $21.90 | About this edition: Tells the story of a prince and a maiden who are tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness are supremely important.
This is a journey into the meaning of Arcadia from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.
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9780753817070 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, July 24, 2003), cover price $12.40 | About this edition: This is a journey into the meaning of Arcadia from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.
Prebinding:
9781417734726 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9780753810675 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, August 3, 2000), cover price $10.55 | About this edition: This epic poem is intended as a celebration of humanity's achievements at the end of this millennium, and a rallying cry for the next.
Hardcover:
9781861591647 | Phoenix, November 1, 1999, cover price $17.95
Paperback:
9780753808641 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, July 15, 1999), cover price $11.25 | About this edition: A novel that carries the reader to the shores of an enchanted island, a strange but familiar world where the evidence of the senses is constantly questioned where illusions dazzle, elude and delight.
Paperback:
9780753808634 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, July 15, 1999), cover price $14.10 | About this edition: This is the story of Omovo, an office worker and artist, who lives with his father and step-mother.
Product Description: Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die at the first oppurtunity, but after his birth, he broke the pact and continued to live. His spirit companions threatend to send seven spirits to reclaim him...read more
Hardcover:
9781861591203 | Phoenix, June 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Azaro is a spirit child.
9780753806807 | Phoenix, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Azaro is a spirit child.
Product Description: Seven people from various fields of activity provide personal accounts of railway journeys in different parts of the world: East Africa, Canada, Zimbabwe/Zambia/Tanzania, Argentina, Europe, Syria/Jordan, and the North of England/Scotland. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780563387176 | Bbc Pubns, September 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Seven people from various fields of activity provide personal accounts of railway journeys in different parts of the world: East Africa, Canada, Zimbabwe/Zambia/Tanzania, Argentina, Europe, Syria/Jordan, and the North of England/Scotland.
Hardcover:
9780385471541 | Doubleday, October 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Myth and naturalism are combined in the story of Azaro, the spirit-child who lives in an impoverished African village, and the upheavals that he and his family face
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9780385471572 | Anchor Books, November 1, 1994, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Myth and naturalism are combined in the story of Azaro, the spirit-child who lives in an impoverished African village, and the upheavals that he and his family face
Product Description: A collection of short stories first published by Secker & Warburg in 1988, set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, relating tales of human suffering, self-destruction and the will to survive. By the author of THE FAMISHED ROAD, SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT and AN AFRICAN ELEGY...read more
Hardcover:
9780670825202 | Penguin USA, June 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of six stories set in the streets of Lagos and the jungles of Nigeria depict the wide-ranging efforts to survive in the face of terror
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9780140116021 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1993), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories first published by Secker & Warburg in 1988, set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, relating tales of human suffering, self-destruction and the will to survive.
Product Description: This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the streets and filthy gutters of the new towns...read more
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9780140117455 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there.
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9780582035362 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, May 1, 1989, cover price $13.13
Product Description: Booker-Prize winner Ben Okri blends the African oral storytelling tradition with Magical Realism in this mesmerizing collection of short stories.      Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road...read more
Hardcover:
9780571129645 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Booker-Prize winner Ben Okri blends the African oral storytelling tradition with Magical Realism in this mesmerizing collection of short stories.
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