Infinite Riches - Softcover

Book 3 of 3: The Famished Road Trilogy

Okri, Ben

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Synopsis

This is a startling novel about different kinds of riches and different forms of power. It opens another chapter in the adventures of Azaro, the celebrated spirit-child of The Famished Road, winner of the Booker Prize. By turns thunderous and tender, it will resonate in the mind and heart of the reader for a long time.

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About the Author

Ben Okri has published many books including The Famished Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1991, Songs of Enchantment, Astonishing the Gods and Dangerous Love. He has also published two books of poems, the most recent being Mental Fight, and a collection of non-fiction, A Way of Being Free. He has been a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts, at Trinity College, Cambridge and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Ben Okri's books have won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize and the Premio Grinzane Cavour Prize. He is a vice-president of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with the Crystal Award for outstanding contribution to the Arts and to cross-cultural understanding by the World Economic Forum. In addition, the University of Westminster awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Literature. Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria and lives in London.

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