In the decade since it won the booker prize, Ben Okri's has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's or gabriel Garcia Marquez's, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work o...In the decade since it won the booker prize, Ben Okri's has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's or gabriel Garcia Marquez's, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, azaro, is an, a spirit child, who in the yoruba tradition of nigeria exists between life and death.