THE FAMISHED ROAD, Ben Okri

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story.

"Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence. As one startling image follows the next, The Famished Road begins to read like an epic poem that happens to touch down just this side of prose...