Open City by Teju Cole – review
Book Review - Open City - By Teju Cole - The New York Times
The peripatetic hero of Teju Cole's indelible novel reflects on his adopted New York, the Africa of his youth, today's America and a Europe ...
Open City by Teju Cole – review | Fiction - The Guardian
It's a reversal of the trope of invisibility and it bothers him! Brussels is the literal open city in this novel and by implication NYC is under ...
Open City by Teju Cole | Goodreads
“City” is Cole's first novel, and details the daily life of Julius, a Nigerian-German psychiatry student in his last year of residency in a New York hospital.
Determining whether the novel's main character is hero, villain or somewhere in between might require the reader to start... ... A masterful command of narrative ...
The Arrival of Enigmas | The New Yorker
Publishers now pitch their books like Hollywood concepts, so Teju Cole's first novel, “Open City” (Random House; $25), is being offered as ...
Open City by Teju Cole – review | Fiction - The Guardian
Julius, the narrator of Open City, is just as sensitive to the New York whose pavements he plods, but he is essentially cut off from all around ...
Sunday Book Review - "Open City" by Teju Cole - for those ... - Reddit
The book Open City is the record of a young doctor in New York who does this most days after work. He doesn't go walking for exercise; he puts ...
Reading Africa — Teju Cole's “Open City” | by The Kalahari Review
Teju Cole's debut novel, “Open City.” This is a book that you can revel in...in both its prose and the feeling it gives you.
Cole's novel is a beautiful book, an elegant story of a city in four dimensions, and a haunting tale of a man who struggles to find his place in it.
Review: Open City by Teju Cole - ark books
A novel for the bad cosmopolitans of the world · There are many novels about New York, and there are many novels about people trying to make a ...
Open City–Teju Cole (2011) | Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
The book thus reveals a pervasive substrate of pain under New York's glittering, cultured, and moneyed façade; perhaps in keeping with the ...
Open City by Teju Cole - Triumph Of The Now
The City may be open, but the narrator is not. Nothing touches him. Nothing at all. His prose is academic, is sharp, but Teju Cole has written a ...
Review: Open City | The Common
Cole's prose is formal, careful, and elegant, and Open City often reads as much like essay as fiction; it is the author's ability to create ...
Open City by Teju Cole: Review - The Daily Beast
Teju Cole's disquietingly powerful debut Open City does none of the above. It's light on plot. It's exquisitely written, but quiet; the ...
Reflections on Teju Cole's OPEN CITY
Cole in Open City delivers a master class in everyday awareness continuously transforming the ordinary experience of the non-heroic narrative ...
'Open City' by Teju Cole - Review - The New York Times
Roaming the Streets, Taking Surreal Turns ... The narrator of Teju Cole's odd, sometimes striking, sometimes frustrating first novel is a med ...
Open City by Teju Cole – I Want To Be A Part Of It - Writing And So On
Actually, you could also define identity by the books you read. If reviews on Goodreads are anything to go by, people who like Teju Cole's Open ...
Open City by Teju Cole - Paste Magazine
The specter of bloody history looms heavy, at times even obscuring the story itself. Open City wrestles with horror on the most minute and ...
Open City by Teju Cole is one of the most interesting and thoughtful books I've read in a long time. The novel opens with our narrator ...
Cole has Julius dream up the Berlin of Julius's mother's youth, and remember the Nigeria of his childhood from New York. Cole's journey in Open ...