SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT

297pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1993) 1994

Book two in The Famished Road trilogy continues the adventures of Azaro, the spirit child.

"A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the Rich and Poor ... Okri's voice is all his own" Independent

"Ben Okri writes beautifully... a triumph of inspiration over the everyday. His prose is dense with pungent metaphor, sometimes whimsical, sometimes bawdy... fraught with wild visions" The Times 

Nigerian author and poet Ben Okri was born in Lagos. His novels include The Famished Road (winner of the Booker Prize), Infinite Riches, An African Elegy and Incidents at the Shrine. He lives in London.