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Original Title:	Open City
ISBN:	1400068096 (ISBN13: 9781400068098)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.tejucole.com/books/
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States) Manhattan, New York City, New York(United States) Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2012), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2012), Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2013), New York City Book Award for Fiction (2011), Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2012) National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2011), The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee (2012)

Open City

Teju Cole

Hardcover | Pages: 259 pages

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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 his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past.

But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey—which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.

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Title	:	Open City
Author	:	Teju Cole
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 259 pages
Published	:	February 8th 2011 by Random House
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa

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It's here.Teju Cole's novel, Open City, published by Random House, launches today in bookstores and through online vendors, to numerous rave and perceptive reviews.That will be no surprise to readers of my blog, The Cassandra Pages, who've been privileged from time to time to read Teju's essays here, illustrated with his photographs. I am absolutely thrilled about the publication of this debut novel (those of us who read Every Day is For the Thief know that he previously wrote a novella.) But

It's here.Teju Cole's novel, Open City, published by Random House, launches today in bookstores and through online vendors, to numerous rave and perceptive reviews.That will be no surprise to readers of my blog, The Cassandra Pages, who've been privileged from time to time to read Teju's essays here, illustrated with his photographs. I am absolutely thrilled about the publication of this debut novel (those of us who read Every Day is For the Thief know that he previously wrote a novella.) But

4.5 stars, really...two things kept it from being five for me: a scene with Moji towards the end of the book that wasn't convincing to me and the ending itself--it left me feeling unsatisfied. I'm still thinking about it, though.Cole's prose is beautiful and easy to read...it's melancholic and meditative. The narrator seems to be an outsider observing everything around him, yet the reader never quite knows what he thinks, what he really thinks, or how he is really experiencing much of what he

Reading the wonderful Open City by Teju Cole I cannot imagine what a non-New Yorker (meaning, of course, in the elitist New York way, someone from New York City) how someone not from the city would react to this novel or how they would even process it. I have walked exactly the streets the character has walked, visited the places he has visited, even experienced the same reactions to closure of stores like Tower Records on 65th Street. I experienced my own past as much as I experienced the

On a flight to Belgium a third of the way through the book, narrator/human palimpsest Julius muses that conversations with strangers on planes quickly turn tiresome for him, rarely rewarding his curiosity. Ironic, because that's how I began to feel about Julius's rambling digressions by about this time in the book. That's not to say that he's never insightfulhe's often brilliant in factbut some of the observations are quite dull, the banal profundities of everyone's late-night conversations in

Stepping off the kerbSo, here's the conundrum. If you are writing the sort of novel that refuses to do any of the traditional jobs of an old-fashioned novel, like fulfil a quest, solve a puzzle, achieve redemption, map a transition from one state to another, if it denies the idea of an arc of tension or indeed a plot of any kind, in fact, then how do you finish it? Here we have Julius, walking around Sebald-like in New York, then walking around in Brussels, where he vaguely thinks about looking

open city n. an undefended city; spec. a city declared to be unfortified and undefended and so, by international law, exempt from enemy attack.Julius, a Nigerian psychiatrist living in Manhattan, is Teju Cole's humane, aesthetic, and highly observant narrator in Open City, a debut novel that has earned Cole comparisons to such heavyweights as Proust and Sebald. While Cole's project is similar in how he explores how our surroundings shape and inform our experiences, our subjective realities, and