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The Famished Road
The Famished Road” was not only the first book in Ben Okri’s hugely acclaimed trilogy, it also won the 1991 Booker Prize; the novel itself was also inspiration for Radiohead’s ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)”.And what a novel it is, mixing the ‘spirit’ world and the real world, we follow Azaro – a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living, and this is his story.