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 … His lyrical, poetic style is a delight to read. When President Bill Clinton first went to Africa he quoted from The Famished Road, which has inspired literature, art, politics, and pop songs—and even been referenced in an episode of The Simpsons. The Famished Road by Ben Okri Reviewed by Ted Gioia The main characters of Ben Okri’s novel The Famished Road move back and forth between the human and spirit worlds with the ease of urban commuters changing subway trains. I devoured the world, through art, politics, literature, films and music, in order to find the elixir of its tone. A transformative story for all ages and all times, it means many things to many people. 10087 Ratings. Five hundred-and-seventy-four long pages. A beautiful hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Nigerian author Ben Okri’s 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, a masterpiece of magical realism narrated by a Yoruba spirit-child. The Famished Road chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Azaro (a nickname, he is quick to point out, for “Lazaro,” or “Lazarus”), an abiku, or “spirit child” of Yoruban myth. Free download or read online The Famished Road pdf (ePUB) book. Ben Okri writes beautifully. His use of language is at times literally breathtaking. The Famished Road is 574 pages of the worst kind of dream sequence. The Famished Road begins in the “land of beginnings,” a realm from which spirits are born into the world of the living, and to which spirits return after death (Okri, The Famished Road, p. 3). In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. T he Famished Road is fed by the dreams of literature. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 512 pages and is available in Paperback format. As the reviewer for the Independent on Sunday wrote, 'Okri is incapable of writing a … This novel, a winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, is a classic of magical realism with a distinctively African twist. The first edition of the novel was published in 1991, and was written by Ben Okri. 1959) has published ten novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories, and essays.His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize for fiction in 1991 and I found it easy to see why. Ben Okri (b. About The Famished Road. 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. 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