Author: Ben Okri
publisher name: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780099929307
Winner of the Booker Prize, "The Famished Road" introduces readers to the life of Azaro, an abiku, a spirit child, who exists between the realms of life and death in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria. Azaro is born into a world characterized by poverty, ignorance, and injustice, but he awakens with a smile on his face. His existence hovers between the land of the living, filled with violence and political struggles, and the carefree kingdom of the spirits. Azaro's parents go to great lengths to save their child, even at the cost of their own destitution. Despite the alluring world of the spirits, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the living, experiencing its hardships, enduring its trials, understanding it, and ultimately loving it.
