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The Famished Road by Ben Okri

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The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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The main characters of Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road move back and forth between the human and spirit worlds with the ease of urban commuters changing subway trains. This novel, a winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, is a classic of magical realism with a distinctively African twist. Yet, departing from the more fanciful examples of this genre that we …

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