In the Shadow of War

"His father had brought the old Grundig cheaply from a family that had to escape the city when the war broke out. He had covered the radio with a white cloth and made it look like a household fetish.”"

"Omovo’s father wiped the sweat off his face with his palm and said, with some bitterness: ‘As if an eclipse will stop this war.’ ‘What is an eclipse?’ Omovo asked. ‘That’s when the world goes dark and strange things happen.’”"

"a strange woman with a black veil over her head”"

"a spy who helps [their] enemies"

"disfigured with a deep corrugation” and she has “a livid gash along the side of her face"

"into the shapes of swollen dead animals,” and he notices “the terrible smell in the air”"