Incidents at the Shrine
Stories out of Lagos and the villages behind it, among them a museum assistant sacked from his post and beaten in the street who goes home to his birthplace and is handed over at the shrine to the Image, to be worked on. The others take in the Biafran war, an eviction, a night's drinking, and a boy watching his family come apart at close range. The book that put its author on the map in Britain, and where the traffic between the spirit world and a room with a rent problem is first worked out.
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