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Stars ofthe new curfew
Book by Ben Okri
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To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the... Google Books
Originally published: 1988
Author: Ben Okri
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Published after 28 years of freedom, these stories reflect the chaos, the corruption, the lost chances and the waste of human abilities and natural resources.
In "The Stars of the New Curfew" the protagonist is a man who can find no work "for one of my qualification" and so takes a job as a patent medicine salesman.
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Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's latest novel, this tale of the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade restores a lost history to ...
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The story defines what it is to be a friend within the shambles created by evil rulers. Scholars who have a bone to pick with Okri refer to him as a postmodern ...
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Ben Okri. Penguin Books, $10 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-14-011602-1 ... The central theme in this ``brilliant'' collection of African short stories is the difficulty of ...
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A collection of six stories set in the streets of Lagos and the jungles of Nigeria depict the wide-ranging efforts to survive in the face of terror.
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It's a phoney world, one in which a Rastafarian has false dread locks under his hat, censorship operates too well and there is a fortune to be made selling ...
This collection of short stories by Ben Okri brings to life the violence, frustration, humour and beauty of everyday life in Nigeria.
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Stars Of The New Curfew. New York: Viking, 1989. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. His fourth book but the first to be published in the United ...
