(Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize – Africa Region) Ende became friends with Jackson when he discovers a drawing of his. The story is set in a post-conflict and cosmopolitan Kano City Slum of the early 2000s. They find themselves in a world where they have to frappe with questions that relate to identity, destiny and society. A haunting narrative of hate and love, of violence and compassion, of concealment and revelation. In this cutting urban realism, readers will encounter memorably quirky characters in a setting that reflects their precarity and hopes. Told descriptively with sophisticated simplicity this novel brings to our attention the deep entwinements of individual struggle with the survival of a community and, ultimately, of a postcolonial nation.