Stars of the new curfew

"In these six stories, set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where reality veers terrifyingly close to nightmare,and the powerless survive through dogged resistance, unquenchable humour, and an insistence on the possibility of love in the face of terror. A peddler of bogus pills is able to escape the wrath of his customers, but not from his recurring dream of an auctioneer who extinguishes the stars in exchange for the heads of dead children. While the governor parades his wealth in front of the masses, two men survive by selling their own blood. During an electrical black-out, a man searches for his lover, hindered as much by his own inner blindness as by the chaos of the city."--Back cover.