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Winner of the Booker Prize when it was published in 1991, The Famished Road is a novel of post-colonial Nigeria. The author blends the spiritual world with the changing modern world to reveal the difficult birth of a nation struggling for independence.
This is one of those books that I didn’t particularly enjoy reading, and yet, I couldn’t stop thinking about it and talking about it. I greatly enjoyed the use of metaphor in this novel. The Famished Road, is a metaphor for the country’s road to in ...more
This is one of those books that I didn’t particularly enjoy reading, and yet, I couldn’t stop thinking about it and talking about it. I greatly enjoyed the use of metaphor in this novel. The Famished Road, is a metaphor for the country’s road to in ...more
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