num_pages: 208
description: This collection of short stories is set in Nigeria and reflects the mad, exotic and often dangerous chaos which reigns there. They include jumbled up voodoo stories, stories of shanty towns and of men from the villages seeking their fortunes in the streets and filthy gutters of the new towns.
language: English
title: Stars of the New Curfew
titlecomplete: Stars of the New Curfew (King Penguin)
genres: Novels, Magical Realism, Africa, Collections, African Literature, Classics, Nigeria, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 320
places: Nigeria
publisher: Penguin Books