The Famished Road Trilogy Series by Ben Okri

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  • The Famished Road (The Famished Road Trilogy #1)
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    The Famished Road (The Famished Road Trilogy #1)

    Ben Okri

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1991

    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 Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature.The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death... more

  • Songs of Enchantment (The Famished Road Trilogy #2)
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    Songs of Enchantment (The Famished Road Trilogy #2)

    Ben Okri

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1993

    In this remarkable sequel to his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, Okri continues the story of the spirit-child who is a reluctant but keen observer of his family's turmoil and the political convulsions of a struggling new Africa. Through his shimmering consciousness and hallucinatory visions, the boy finds the strength to survive.

  • Infinite Riches (The Famished Road Trilogy #3)
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    Infinite Riches (The Famished Road Trilogy #3)

    Ben Okri

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1998

    Ben Okri's new novel, continuing the adventures of Azaro, the spirit-child in the perplexing world of the living

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