The Famished Road

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 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 The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the ...