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Author Okri, Ben.

Title Songs of enchantment / Ben Okri.

Imprint New York : Nan A. Talese, ©1993.

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Location Call No. Status
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  OKRI, BEN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC OKRI    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Description 297 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Famished Road ; [bk. 2]
Okri, Ben. Famished Road ; bk. 2.
Summary Ben Okri, winner of the 1991 Booker Prize for The Famished Road, now gives us Songs of Enchantment, and it is hard to imagine a more gloriously written novel. Azaro, the spirit-child, is a reluctant traveler in the realities of this world. In this moving story of love and transformation, his adventures begin with the disruption of his family. Under the pressure of poverty and myth, his mother departs to follow the legendary Madame Koto. An obsession for a beautiful beggar girl snares forbidden visions. Set in an age of enchantments, their story takes place among the upheavals of a nation struggling to be born. There are mass political hallucinations, battles of contending forces in the realm of dreams, mysterious disappearances, and the rise of the Jackal-headed Masquerade. With humor and wisdom, Ben Okri tells of Azaro's father and how, drawing on the magic of courage, he undergoes the great penance of love. Through the experiences of this unique family we see that life lived with compassion and fire and serenity can vanquish the forces of oppression, and counter the darkness with light. At the end of the absorbing novel we feel it to be true when Azaro's father says, "Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."
Subject Parent and child -- Fiction.
Villages -- Fiction.
Nigeria -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Boys (OCoLC)fst00837358
Parent and child (OCoLC)fst01053308
Villages (OCoLC)fst01166969
Nigeria (OCoLC)fst01205229
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction (OCoLC)fst01423787
Magic realist fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Okri, Ben. Songs of enchantment. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York : Nan A. Talese, ©1993 (OCoLC)988393398
ISBN 0385471548
9780385471541
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