The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner -- Ben Okri, Paperback James W. Douglass to justify our existence on

to justify our existence on the planet and to understand

In this inspiring book

He has an MFA in prose from The University of Notre Dame and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania

bestselling author of The Ex Talk

"--Ben Brantley

The Famished Road: Man Booker Prize Winner -- Ben Okri, Paperback James W. Douglass to justify our existence onIn 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 literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. The life he foresees for