The Famished Road

Literature & Fiction

BEN OKRI

Genre Fiction

Vintage

Infinite Riches (Famished Road)

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

A collection of poems reflecting Okri's concerns about Africa's colossal economic and political problems.

An African Elegy

Poetry

Stated First Vintage 1992 Edition - Feels like a new unread copy. no crease to spine. Mild shelf wear from normal handling. Published in U:K. Satisfaction guaranteed!

Between The Acts - Vintage (The Famished Road Trilogy)

Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road. Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.

INCIDENTS AT THE SHRINE

Set in Nigeria, a country failing to come to terms with the atrocity of a recent civil war and the echo of that violence, "Dangerous Love" tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist, who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has many friends and some enemies, but most important of all there is Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman who he loves with an almost hopeless passion - not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together. Okri builds a vivid picture of Nigerian life: of the compound with its complete lack of privacy, the gossip, the good times, the street life, the complex nature of family relationships and the kindness and treachery of friends. Overshadowing everything is the image of a nation struggling to come to terms with the atrocity of the recent civil war, the echoes of which presage the story's tragic tale.

Dangerous love

The Penguin Group

Physical description: 500 pages ; 24cm. Subjects: Magic ; Fiction.

Famished Road

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Mild soiling to the dust jacket's panels.

Songs of Enchantment

JONATHAN CAPE.

Astonishing the gods

Little. Brown and Company

Flowers and shadows

Longman Drumbeat

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