A Prayer for the Living

Summary

Playful, frightening, shockingthese stories from a writer at the height of his power will make you think, or make you laugh. Sometimes theyll make you want to look away, but they will always hold your gaze. These are stories set in London, in Byzantium, in the ghetto, in the Andes, and in a printers shop in Lagos. Characters include a murderer, a writer, a detective, a man in a cave, a man in a mirror, three little boys, a prison door, and the author himself. Each one of these twenty-three stories will make you wonder if what you see in the world can really be all there is . .