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In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world... read more
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First Sentence edit
IN THE BEGINNING there was a river.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 1991 of 46 in Booker Prize Winners. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Possession, and followed by Sacred Hunger.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: UK
Publication Date: 14 March, 1991
ISBN: 0224027018
Page Count: 519
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: UK
Publication Date: 14 March, 1991
ISBN: 0224027018
Page Count: 519
Awards edit
- Man Booker Prize (1991)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823
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