The Famished Road
by Ben Okri | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385425139 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0385425139 Global Overview for this book
Registered by dospescados on 10/15/2005
3 journalers for this copy...
bought at a mini booksale at the public library in Cazenovia, NY
Since I won't get to this before I move in June or even any time soon after that, this book might as well travel. I've offered it for tantan's series of Booker rings to replace the other copy that appears to be stalled at the moment. Her site for the project can be found here and the book's page on the site here.
Shipping order:
rhythmbiscuit (Pueblo, CO, USA)
tania-in-nc (Mooresville, NC, USA) <----------here
lady-anglophile (Kuwait)
peggysmum (Pearce, ACT, Australia)
tantan (Gympie, QLD, Australia)
fushmush (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
meganh (Gisborne, VIC, Australia)
jazz-ee2 (Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England)
Lillyanna (Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga, Spain)
home to dospescados in Bloomington, IN, USA
Shipping order:
rhythmbiscuit (Pueblo, CO, USA)
tania-in-nc (Mooresville, NC, USA) <----------here
lady-anglophile (Kuwait)
peggysmum (Pearce, ACT, Australia)
tantan (Gympie, QLD, Australia)
fushmush (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
meganh (Gisborne, VIC, Australia)
jazz-ee2 (Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England)
Lillyanna (Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga, Spain)
home to dospescados in Bloomington, IN, USA
Thank you for including me in the bookring! I have wanted to read The Famished Road since college, but I haven't gotten around to it until now. This book is next after I finish my current read.
Update: I've read about half the book. The words are rich and densely packed with meaning, so I find that I read it quite slowly. I admit that sometimes I get confused when Azaro sees spirits. It's an interesting idea, being caught between two worlds.
I hope to finish the book before long, so that I can send it on its journey. Thanks for your patience.
I hope to finish the book before long, so that I can send it on its journey. Thanks for your patience.
I haven't been interested in reading this book lately, and I don't think I will finish it. I want to move the book along, so I have contacted tania-in-nc for her address.
Journal Entry 6 by rhythmbiscuit at Sent to another bookcrosser in n/a, Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Friday, June 2, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (6/2/2006 UTC) at Sent to another bookcrosser in n/a, Bookray -- Controlled Releases
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I am mailing this book to tania-in-nc.
I am mailing this book to tania-in-nc.
Aah, the joy of having a "yellow package" arriving in the mail :) There is nothing that beats that emotion.
I do have a couple of bookrings ahead of it but I am a quick reader - and besides it's summer vacation as of Friday so I will have more time to read.
Thanks so much for sharing!
It's next after How Happy To Be by Katrina Onstad, c. 2006
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from contemporaryauthors.com
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.
He was poetry editor for West Africa magazine between 1983 and 1986 and broadcast regularly for the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985. He was appointed Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge in 1991, a post he held until 1993. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, and was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Westminster (1997) and Essex (2002).
His first two novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), are both set in Nigeria and feature as central characters two young men struggling to make sense of the disintegration and chaos happening in both their family and country. The two collections of stories that followed, Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988), are set in Lagos and London.
In 1991 Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village, this is the first in a trilogy of novels which tell the story of Azaro, a spirit child. Azaro's narrative is continued in Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998). Other recent fiction includes Astonishing the Gods (1995) and Dangerous Love (1996), which was awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. His latest novel, In Arcadia, was published in September 2002.
A collection of poems, An African Elegy, was published in 1992, and an epic poem, Mental Flight, in 1999. A collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, was published in 1997. Ben Okri is also the author of a play, In Exilus.
Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in 2001. He lives in London.
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This book was a typical Booker prize winner. Some parts I skimmed as it went over my head but I did enjoy the premise of the book. Thanks for sharing :)
I do have a couple of bookrings ahead of it but I am a quick reader - and besides it's summer vacation as of Friday so I will have more time to read.
Thanks so much for sharing!
It's next after How Happy To Be by Katrina Onstad, c. 2006
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from contemporaryauthors.com
Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.
He was poetry editor for West Africa magazine between 1983 and 1986 and broadcast regularly for the BBC World Service between 1983 and 1985. He was appointed Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge in 1991, a post he held until 1993. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, and was awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of Westminster (1997) and Essex (2002).
His first two novels, Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), are both set in Nigeria and feature as central characters two young men struggling to make sense of the disintegration and chaos happening in both their family and country. The two collections of stories that followed, Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988), are set in Lagos and London.
In 1991 Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village, this is the first in a trilogy of novels which tell the story of Azaro, a spirit child. Azaro's narrative is continued in Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998). Other recent fiction includes Astonishing the Gods (1995) and Dangerous Love (1996), which was awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. His latest novel, In Arcadia, was published in September 2002.
A collection of poems, An African Elegy, was published in 1992, and an epic poem, Mental Flight, in 1999. A collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, was published in 1997. Ben Okri is also the author of a play, In Exilus.
Ben Okri is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN, a member of the board of the Royal National Theatre, and was awarded an OBE in 2001. He lives in London.
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This book was a typical Booker prize winner. Some parts I skimmed as it went over my head but I did enjoy the premise of the book. Thanks for sharing :)
