West Africa
Nigeria
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Second in Okri's Abiku trilogy, continuing Azaro's story as his family faces more brutal poverty and the spirit world intensifies its hold. The political violence of Nigeria becomes inseparable from spiritual terror.
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Continues the visionary project of The Famished Road; one of the great achievements of magical realism in African fiction
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editorial-summarynot primary textSecond in Okri's Abiku trilogy, continuing Azaro's story as his family faces more brutal poverty and the spirit world intensifies its hold. The political violence of Nigeria becomes inseparable from spiritual terror. Continues the visionary project of The Famished Road; one of the great achievements of magical realism in African fiction
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