West Africa
Nigeria
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Third in the Azaro trilogy, following the spirit child and his family to the moment of Nigerian independence. The personal and mythic are inseparable as Nigeria struggles to be born.
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Completes Okri's major trilogy; a meditation on the relationship between a nation's birth and its spiritual inheritance
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editorial-summarynot primary textThird in the Azaro trilogy, following the spirit child and his family to the moment of Nigerian independence. The personal and mythic are inseparable as Nigeria struggles to be born. Completes Okri's major trilogy; a meditation on the relationship between a nation's birth and its spiritual inheritance
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