Details of dead is important in this story because in the town people are dying so the people who are alive, people want to pray for them.
Explanation:
A prayer for the living is a short story which was written by Ben Okri. This author also won a prize for this book written by him. The main setting of this story is in Nigeria.
In this book, the author writes about the importance and role of fiction in the difficult and tough times that a person might have to got through in his entire life.
