The/Songs of Enchantment Famished Road (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ben Okri
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—mythological
- Time of Work: Undefined
- Setting: Rural Nigeria
- 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 Plot
Azaro is an abiku and therefore destined to die and return to life repeatedly. He breaks his pact with his spirit companions and chooses to stay in the world of the living “to make happy the bruised face” of a mother who has suffered “the long joyless parturition of mothers.” Dreams and numerous journeys through various realms of reality and his séances in the space between the living and spirit worlds describe his exile.
Azaro’s spirit companions relentlessly lure him back to their fold; tirelessly, his parents exhaust their energy and...
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