The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner

Synopsis

Booker prize winner • a modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, with its violence and political struggles, and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits. • "a dazzling achievement for any writer in any language. " —the new york times book reviewin 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 hundred years of solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.