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This is the bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century 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 criss-crosses 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Open City
• Author: Teju Cole
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780571279432
• ISBN: 0571279430
• ID: 04432301
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 216 g
• Dimensions: 194 × 174 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. February 2012

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