<Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 519 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 224 - 02701 - 8 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Famished Road is a novel written by Nigerian author Ben Okri . Published in 1991, the story of the novel follows Azaro, an abiku or spirit child, living in an unnamed, most likely Nigerian, city . The novel employs a unique narrative style incorporating the spirit world with the "real" world in what some have classified as magical realism . Others have labeled it African Traditional Religion realism . Still others choose to simply call the novel fantasy literature . The book exploits the belief in the coexistence of the spiritual and material worlds that is a defining aspect of traditional African life . </P> <P> The Famished Road was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 1991 . </P>

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