by Ben Okri · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140117455
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«Stars of the New Curfew» is Ben Okri's collection of short stories, published by Penguin in paperback (208 pages, in English).
A collection of six stories set in Nigeria, a country shaken by a fascinating and often dangerous chaos. There are stories of voodoo, of shantytowns, and of men who leave their villages to make a living in the streets and sewers of the new cities.
The collection includes the stories «In the Shadow of War», «Worlds That Flourish», «In the City of Red Dust», «Stars of the New Curfew», «When the Lights Return» and «What the Tapster Saw».
For readers of literary fiction and short stories, especially those seeking contemporary African fiction with elements of magical realism.
Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared to authors 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 for services to literature.
