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Fiction · First published 1991

The Famished Road

by Ben OkriNigeria

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Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child, who chooses to stay among the living in a poor Nigerian community while the spirit world keeps calling him back. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize.

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