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Open City

By: Teju Cole
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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.

©2023 Faber & Faber (P)2023 Faber & Faber Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction New York Africa
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Cole is exquisite in observing the small things, making mountains out of molehills. There is a chivalry to his intellect, and i love how this book jumps from Manhattan to Brussels to Lagos. Yum.

Loved the observations, the intersections.

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