Listen to Teju on NPR’s Weekend Edition on Saturday, February 12th and look for upcoming reviews in the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review.
OPEN CITY: A Novel
By Teju Cole
HC ISBN 978-1-4000-6809-8
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-679-60449-5
Random House
“The best debut of 2011. . . .the most thoughtful and provocative debut I’ve read in a long time.” –Taylor Antrim, the Daily Beast
“One of the most hotly anticipated debut novels of the year.” — Time Out New York
“[A] quietly powerful debut.” – O, The Oprah Magazine
“Nothing escapes Julius, the narrator of Teju Cole’s excellent debut novel… [an] intelligent, finely observed portrait.” – GQ
“A beautiful portrait of a man who, like us all, tries to find where he fits in.” —Men’s Health
“Open City offers a Netherland-esque portrait of a newly single Nigerian émigré set adrift in New York.” – Vogue
“[Cole] has an enviable ability to take a subject, say, the city of New York, and turn it inside out and upside down, shake it out, and examine the contents, then pack it up again.” — Bookslut
“A rich read…In another novel the city would serve as a mere setting. Cole, though, all but foists it on us in case we might be tempted to narrow our view or even look away.” – NY Daily News
“Masterful.”—Kirkus (starred review)
“Intelligent and panoramic…engaged with the world in a rare and refreshing way.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)