by Ben Okri · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423979134
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«La carretera hambrienta» is the magic realist novel by Ben Okri, published by Espasa Calpe in hardcover (540 pages, in Spanish).
Azaro is a spirit child, an abiku, who decides to stay in the world of the living while his Nigerian family struggles against poverty, hunger and everyday violence. Azaro's spiritual companions try to drag him back, and the supernatural seeps into the reality of the village in a magic realist narrative.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1991, it is the first instalment of the La carretera hambrienta trilogy; this Spanish-language edition was published in 1994.
For readers interested in magic realism and contemporary African literature, with a look at Nigeria from the spiritual and the social.
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
