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Open city

Paperback • 2011 • English • 1. edition

Open city

By Teju Cole

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About the book

'The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity'. Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780571279425

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Open city

Format

Paperback

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