by Teju Cole, Xavier Pàmies Giménez · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264061003
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«Open City» is the novel by Teju Cole, published by 10/18 in paperback (336 pages, in French).
In Manhattan, Julius, a young Nigerian physician and psychiatry resident, walks aimlessly to escape the routine of work and sort out his thoughts after a breakup. His wanderings bring him into contact with strangers and patients, and lead him to reflect on the city, art, memory, and identity.
This French edition was published in 2014; the original work appeared in 2011 and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in urban stories about identity and human connections in New York.
Teju Cole is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); a novel, Open City (2011); an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016); a photobook, Punto d'Ombra (2016); and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."
