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The Famished Road is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches...

such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours...

malapropism, Spoonerism, aphasia). I'm ravished! for "I'm ravenous!" or for "I'm famished!" "They build a horse" instead of they build a house. The strained use...

railway brigade was considered a relatively appealing job, since it gave famished workers access to luggage which often contained food. Younger prisoners...

Edomites in Mount Seir. In Genesis, Esau returned to his twin brother Jacob, famished from the fields. He begs Jacob to give him some "red pottage" (a play on...

potatoes, rice, fish, or greens, deluged in vinegar, and gobble it up like a famished dog". Byron first took his seat in the House of Lords on 13 March 1809...

Year Title Role Notes 2003 Famished Violet Short film; directed by Heather Holte 2004 Finding Kate Kate Short film 2006 Loving Annabelle Annabelle Tillman...

did not commit. The book is the third book of a trilogy which began with Famished Road in 1991. Infinite Riches begins where Songs of Enchantment ends, with...

1846 uprising, now known as the Galician slaughter, by impoverished and famished Galician Eastern European peasants (serfs) directed against szlachta (Polish...

could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that...

deceptive behavior. In Genesis, Esau returned to his brother, Jacob, being famished from the fields. He begged his twin brother to give him some "red pottage"...

Ireland Park in Toronto, Canada. The two memorials show emigrants leaving famished Ireland for a new life. "The Famine Memorial in Dublin". Atlas Obscura...

In Suidas "Aithon", he chopped Demeter's sacred grove and was forever famished for that (compare the myth of Erysichthon). In Nonnus Dionysiaca 17.269...

Nigerian author Ben Okri, the second book in a trilogy that started with The Famished Road (1991) and continues with Infinite Riches (1998). It was published...

"Emperor Shun said, 'Qi, the black-haired people begin to be famished. Do you, Lord of Millet, sow in their seasons the various kinds of grain...

Los Angeles Times wrote that the film "seems to be just the thing for famished culture mavens at Christmastime. Unfortunately, and through no fault of...

selling his birthright to Jacob. This passage tells that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew that Jacob had...

that she is an ọgbanje. In Ben Okri's Booker Prize-winning novel, The Famished Road (1991), as well as in the two other books in his trilogy, Songs of...

prepared a meal. She wanted to go and look for her daughter, but was so famished from her labours that she fell upon the dish of cooked meat, devouring...

is haunted when she spies a ghost wandering the halls. It appears the famished phantom is gobbling up the jellybeans meant for the Royal Jellybean Counting...