| Title | : | Open City: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812980093 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 259 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-01-17 |
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A New York Times Notable Book • One of the ten top novels of the year —Time and NPR
NAMED A BEST BOOK ON MORE THAN TWENTY END-OF-THE-YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING The New Yorker • The Atlantic • The Economist • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The New Republic • New York Daily News • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Minneapolis Star Tribune • GQ • Salon • Slate • New York magazine • The Week• The Kansas City Star • Kirkus Reviews
A haunting novel about identity, dislocation, and history, Teju Cole’s Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world.
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius wa
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Possibly the only negative thing to say about Cole's intelligent and panoramic first novel is that it is a more generous account of the recent past than the era deserves. America's standing in the world is never far from the restless thoughts of psychiatry resident Julius, a Nigerian immigrant who wanders Manhattan, pondering everything from Goya and the novels of J.M. Coetzee to the bankruptcy of Tower Records and the rise of the bedbug epidemic. In other words, it is an ongoing reverie in the tradition of W.G. Sebald or Nicholson Baker, but with the welcome interruptions of the friends and strangers Julius meets as he wanders Penn Station, the Upper West Side, and Brussels during a short holiday, and amid discussions of Alexander Hamilton, black identity, and the far left--a truly American novel emerges. Julius pines over a recent ex, mourns the death of a friend, goes to movies, concerts, and museums, but above all he ruminates, and the pi
Full of seeming digressions, it digresses in fact not at all, but is a seamless deepening through detail of the whole picture and atmosphere of today's global city.
And it goes to a sharp inner twist that you will not forget.
It's a book to love, and to reread many times.. This book has everything that I have come to expect from this author: detailed primary and secondary characters, intense dialog, heart wrenching emotion & hilarious profanity. This is a great in-depth book that answers a myriad of questions in detail. This is a great read and tells the story of the true love of parents for their children and what a blessing each and every one of them are for us.. This is an excellent book. It's like visiting the mind of an art historian and looking out through his eyes.
4. The book is pretty concise and provides the answers to our queries. I think this book will be useful in guiding a conversation between us about expectations going forward. I may wri
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