The Famished Road
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BOOKER PRIZE 1991. So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tr...
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BOOKER PRIZE 1991. So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists be tween life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and inj ustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to t he 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 l and of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the tempt ations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazar us's story. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.
Product Info
ISBN: 0099929309
ISBN-13: 9780099929307
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Year: 1992
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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