The Famished Road (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Ben Okri
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy
- Subjects: Children, Self-discovery, Africa or Africans, Mythology or myths, Politics, Twentieth century, Poverty or poor people, Folklore, Allegory, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Reincarnation, Nigeria or Nigerians
- Locales: Nigeria
The dramatic events that have taken place in South Africa during the past few years make it easy to forget that Africa is not a country but a continent. The literature of South Africa, more precisely, of white South African writers, holds a similarly special place in the western mind: the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Andre Brink, and Nadine Gordimer, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Except for Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, few black African writers have fared so well, perhaps because none has done for Africa what Gabriel Garcia Marquez did for South America and Salman...
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