The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner - Brossura

Okri, Ben

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385425139 ISBN 13: 9780385425131

Casa editrice: Anchor, 1993

Riassunto

As his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, battles the evil spirits who are tempting him. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language."
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New York Times Book Review

"A mesmerizing vision of modern Nigeria, seen through the eyes of a peculiarly sentient child.... The Famished Road is a quintessential African novel.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“A stunning work, suspenseful and haunting, the product of one of the lushest imaginations on record.”—The Plain Dealer
 
"A masterpiece if one ever existed."
--The Boston Globe

"Dazzling, hypnotic...a true feast for the word hungry."
--San Francisco Chronicle
 

L'autore:

Ben Okri's books have won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the prestigious International Literary Prize Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore 1993. The Famished Road won the Booker Prize in 1991. He was born in Minna, Nigeria.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Anchor
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0385425139
• ISBN 13: 9780385425131
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512