Stars of the New Curfew (King Penguin)

From Publishers Weekly

The central theme in this "brilliant" collection of African short stories is the difficulty of standing one's ground in a world where superstition, poverty and irresponsible use of power combine to destroy effective social bonds. "Okri writes beautiful, dense prose. He is a modernist author, moving freely from realism to surrealism, but his work is consistently accessible," stated PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.