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Known and strange things

Paperback • 2018 • English • 1. edition

Known and strange things

By Teju Cole

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About the book

A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices, covering subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W.G Sebald, Instagram, Barack Obama and Boko Haram. Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Tej...Show more

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ISBN

9780571328062

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2018

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Known and strange things

Format

Paperback

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