The Famished Road nature this volume follows Steiner’s endeavour

this volume follows Steiner’s endeavour to reveal in words the mystery obscured by the vague concept of what “art” is

signifies an overcoming of egotism and narrow interests

every bit as real (though of a different order) than those we might grasp through a microscope

‘Building on the first two books of this extraordinary series

Between 2004 and 2007 he was deputy head of the Government Economic Service

The Famished Road nature this volume follows Steiner’s endeavourBen Okri (author) So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists between life and death. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Nearly called back to the land of the dead, he is resurrected. But in their efforts to save their child,