Book description
In the chaotic world of his African village, the spirit-child Azaro
still watches the tumultous and tender lives of the Living; of his
father who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and of his
mother who battles for justice. This final chapter in Azaro's adventures
is a explosive and haunting climax to this masterful trilogy. Ben Okri
has published many books, including
The Famished Road
, which won the Booker Prize in1991, Songs of Enchantment
, Astonishing the Gods, Dangerous Love
and In Arcadia
. He has also published two books of poems, Mental Flight
and An African Elegy
, and a collection of non-fiction, A Way of Being Free.
He has been a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College,
Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2000 he
was awarded an OBE for services to literature. Ben Okri was born in
Minna, Nigeria and lives in London.
