Overview
Region
West Africa
Nigeria
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
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.
Literary Significance
Continues the visionary project of The Famished Road; one of the great achievements of magical realism in African fiction