A burden that seems especially cruel given that pretty much everything you need to. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Rent the famished road 1st edition 97803854251 and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used textbooks. A transformative story for all ages and all times, it means many things to many people. Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Like salman rushdies midnights children or gabriel garcia marquezs one hundred years of solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. Azaro, the narratorprotagonist of okris famished road, is an abiku, or spiritchild, destined to undergo a recurring cycle of birth, early death, and rebirth. The famished road by ben okri won the nigerian author the 1991 booker prize. In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. A novel the famished road trilogy kindle edition by okri, ben. T hey named me lazaro, explains the narrator of the famished road, ben okris 1991 booker winner. National bestseller winner of the pulitzer prize the searing, postapocalyptic novel about a.
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