In the canon
The Famished Road
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1991
- Pages
- Pages 500
A spirit child breaks his vow to die young and return to the land of ghosts, and stays instead in his family's poor, violence-shadowed African compound, torn between both worlds as bribery and thuggery poison an election around him.
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world.
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