Verdict: carrot
The air in Lagos, Nigeria, “is dense with story,” writes the narrator of Teju Cole’s remarkable new novel. A luminous rumination on storytelling and place, exile and return, “Every Day Is for the Thief” traces the unhurried wanderings of a New York psychiatrist who returns to Lagos – the city of his childhood – to find “what it was I longed for all those times I longed for home.”
Written in a circuitous style reminiscent of W.G. Sebald’s “The Emigrants” or Nicole Krauss’ “Great House,” the book, which features photos by the author, knits a skein of seemingly unrelated memories, stories, reflections and chance encounters into an ineffable sense of character and place.
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- Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
EAN: 9780812995787
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