Open City

Open City by Teju Cole is a stunning and acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan.

Informationen zum Autor Teju Cole was raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992. He is a writer! photographer! and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. Open City is his first novel. He lives in New York City. Klappentext An acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. Will appeal to fans of "The Brief & Wonderous Life Of Oscar Wao" and "White Teeth". 'An indelible debut...' "New York Times" Open City by Teju Cole is a stunning and acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. Zusammenfassung A novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender. It follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan.

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Teju Cole was raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992. He is a writer, photographer, and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. Open City is his first novel. He lives in New York City.

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An acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. Will appeal to fans of "The Brief & Wonderous Life Of Oscar Wao" and "White Teeth". 'An indelible debut...' "New York Times"

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The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.

A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic.

Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York - as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul.