
The Famished Road
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Narrated by:
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Hugh Quarshie
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By:
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Ben Okri
About this listen
Winner of The Booker Prize 1991
So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use.
He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it.
This is his story.
©2019 Ben Okri (P)2019 Audible, LtdThis is an absolute joy thank you sooooo much xxxx
Just beautiful
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Amazing narrator!
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I loved the narrator's voice too.
A joy to listen to
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Ethereal but quite hard to get through!
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Loved the characters who really came to life in t
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The story is powerful and seamless, foretelling our current situation.
The solution is always a change of heart.
The language resonated with my ancestral blood line
I loved it
Darkness flowered
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A vivid explosion of the mytho-poetic in Africa
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Ben Okri's beautifully written and moving novel combines fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the here-and-now to convey Nigerian peasant life in a changing world. It is the most ambitious as well as one of the most fullly realised of this year's novels. It brings a distictively black African way of writing and seeing things into the mainstream of European fiction.
Jeremy Treglowan
Chairman of the Booker Prize Judges
A Great Literary Marvel
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A wonderful whirlwind of a Story.
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The Famished Road
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