{"product_id":"open-city-paperback","title":"Open City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTeju Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole's novel asks what it means to roam freely.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.\"--Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIntimacies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR - WINNER: PEN\/Hemingway Award, Rosenthal Foundation Award, New York City Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup, his present, his past. Though he's navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeething with intelligence and written in a clear, rhythmic voice, \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting, mature, profound work about our country and our world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST: National Book Critics Circle Award, Young Lions Fiction Award - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, Newsweek, The New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eNew York \u003ci\u003eDaily News, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, GQ, Salon, Slate, New York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Week, The Kansas City Star, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeju Cole \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in the United States in 1975 and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Open City, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His photography has been exhibited in India and the United States. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44304643522662,"sku":"9780812980097","price":24.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Y2xKcVRXTDdlSWsrOU9ZY0svUE50UT09.webp?v=1767617723","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/open-city-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}