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Open City by Teju Cole – review


Open City | Teju Cole - London Review Bookshop

The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.…

Open City: A Novel | Books Inc.

Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole's novel asks what it means to roam freely.”—The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From ...

BookPage coverage of 'Open City'

Review of 'Open City' ... Teju Cole's Open City follows the peripatetic ramblings of its narrator through the streets of New York City. Julius begins to take ...

On Teju Cole's OPEN CITY, NY Times Book Review, 25/02/2011

With every anecdote, with each overlap, Cole lucidly builds a compassionate and masterly work engaged more with questions than with answers ...

Conversation: Teju Cole's 'Open City' | PBS News

Open City, a new novel by Teju Cole, follows a Nigerian-born medical student as he walks the streets of New York City.

OPEN CITY by Teju Cole | Audiobook Review - AudioFile Magazine

A Nigerian-German psychiatrist wanders the streets of Manhattan and Brussels, ruminating on recent events in his life as well as his childhood in Nige.

Open City: A Novel (Paperback) | The Bookloft

By Teju Cole ; Staff Reviews. Bookseller: Ellyne Title: Open City Comments: We are in step with Julius, Teju Cole's protangonist, as he lives his solitary life, ...

Teju Cole's Open City and the Limits of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism

While Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City has been received as an exemplary cosmo- politan performance, a careful reading of the novel's engagement with ...

Open City by Teju Cole - Diary of an Autodidact

It's hard to describe exactly what this book is. It doesn't exactly have a narrative arc, although it has a couple of parallel climaxes. It is ...

Reviews - Open City | The StoryGraph

Open City is a beautifully written novel that feels like NYC. Cole is undeniably a gifted writer, one who uses words well and provokes readers to contemplate ...

Teju Cole's Open City Is a Strange, Marvelous Novel That Captures ...

[…] by Teju Cole: Cole's first “novel” points toward the ambition and brilliance of Open City, with which it shares an ambulatory vibe. The ...

Open City. Fiction. By Teju Cole. New York: Random House, 2011 ...

When we walk in cities, is it to ponder ideas or to distract ourselves from our pain? In Cole's intriguing first novel, Julius, ...

Book Review: Teju Cole's 'Every Day Is for the Thief' | - Africa in Words

The book is less even, less assured than Open City; it teeters occasionally towards the maudlin, and it has a tendency to over-explain.

Open City, By Teju Cole | The Independent

There's an early hint of what's to come in this extraordinary debut when the narrator listens to a symphony that follows its composer ...

Open City Summary & Study Guide - BookRags.com

Open City is the debut novel by author Teju Cole. The story follows the main character, Julius, who is a Nigerian doctor doing his psychiatric residency in New ...

Open City Summary - eNotes.com

Most of Open City is based on the experiences of Julius, who is finishing the last year of his psychiatry fellowship in New York City.

Open City Summary - SuperSummary

Open City is a work of literary fiction set in both New York City and Brussels. The narrator, as he walks around the streets of these cities, recalls events ...

Teju Cole: Open City - International Center of Photography

A haunting novel about identity, dislocation, and history, Teju Cole's Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our ...

Memories Stream By In Subtle, Disturbing 'Open City' | Arts

Similarly, the physical action of wandering takes center stage in Teju Cole's debut novel “Open City.” The book opens with an image of the ...

Open City: A Novel (Paperback) - Harvard Book Store

“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole's novel asks what it means to roam freely.”—The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the ...