"An exuberantly dark first novel." NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross
**Shortlisted
for the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature**
Two friends, one a budding writer
home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub,
the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers
of all languages and nationalities. "Tram 83 "plunges the reader into the moder
n African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz
rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a glob
al village.
