Teju Cole Open City Paperback Book

The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twentyfirstcentury W. G. Sebald. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic. Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius crisscrosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul. | Teju Cole Open City Paperback Book