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Azario is a spirit child who is born to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is a beautifully written and moving novel combining fantasy and the vision of a child, the supernatural and the heContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 592 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0099929309
- ISBN-13: 9780099929307
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1992
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780099929307 | Paperback | $14.22 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The Famished Road
(Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize) This is the story of Azaro, an abiku, or spirit child. The abiku are children who hover eternally between the real and spirit worlds. Azaro is born on the eve of Nigerian independence to a poor couple living in the g ... (read full critics)