The Famished Road
Ben Okri
A very rich book, every short chapter is full of detail and every
word seems to carry an important meaning. Very much Gill's kind
of book because of the elements of magic and the spirit world and
that it is set in a totally different time and different place to
the one in which she lives. It's the story of Azaro, a spirit
child in Nigeria. Spirit children would normally move on to
another life/world quite quickly but Azaro decides to stay in the
one that he's born into. Beautifully and descriptively written.
Gill 23/5/04
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