272 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2011 by Faber & Faber, Limited.
Teju Cole: Open City (2011, Faber & Faber, Limited)
272 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2011 by Faber & Faber, Limited.
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.