Famished Road
by Ben Okri
A Booker Prize winning novel, this story is told by a spirit child who exists between the world of the living and the world of the dead, it is a story of sadness, tragedy, and love.
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Ben Okri
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Okri
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