Open City - Paperback

Open City - Paperback

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Categories : Fiction
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by Teju Cole (Author)

"Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole's novel asks what it means to roam freely."--The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)

"Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go."--Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR - WINNER: PEN/Hemingway Award, Rosenthal Foundation Award, New York City Book Award

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup, his present, his past. Though he's navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation.

Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who provide insight on his journey--which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.

Seething with intelligence and written in a clear, rhythmic voice, Open City is a haunting, mature, profound work about our country and our world.

FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle Award, Young Lions Fiction Award - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, Newsweek, The New Republic, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, GQ, Salon, Slate, New York, The Week, The Kansas City Star, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Irish Times

Author Biography

Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His photography has been exhibited in India and the United States. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: January 17, 2012
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Categories : Fiction
Tags : African American & Black, Books, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Psychological

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by Teju Cole (Author)

"Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole's novel asks what it means to roam freely."--The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)

"Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go."--Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of Intimacies

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR - WINNER: PEN/Hemingway Award, Rosenthal Foundation Award, New York City Book Award

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup, his present, his past. Though he's navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation.

Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who provide insight on his journey--which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.

Seething with intelligence and written in a clear, rhythmic voice, Open City is a haunting, mature, profound work about our country and our world.

FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle Award, Young Lions Fiction Award - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, Newsweek, The New Republic, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, GQ, Salon, Slate, New York, The Week, The Kansas City Star, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Irish Times

Author Biography

Teju Cole was born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His photography has been exhibited in India and the United States. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: January 17, 2012

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