The Man Booker Prize Winner—1991 Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this phantasmagorical novel is set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, and follows the story of Azaro—a “spirit-child” who has reneged on a pact with the spirit world—and the travails of his impoverished, beleaguered family.
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The Man Booker Prize Winner—1991
Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this phantasmagorical novel is set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, and follows the story of Azaro—a “spirit-child” who has reneged on a pact with the spirit world—and the travails of his impoverished, beleaguered family.