Ben Okri — The Famished Road
London, Jonathan Cape, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A lovely true first edition, third printing of Ben Okri's Man Booker Prize winning novel, in the unclipped dust wrapper. First UK edition, third impression of this novel by Ben Okri, Nigerian poet and novelist, considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern traditions. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, this novel is the first in a trilogy following the story of Azaro, a spirit child living in an African city. Based on the belief in the coexistence of the spiritual and material worlds, a defining aspect of African tradition. Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
