Open City

Resumen del libro

Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation. But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey - which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.

A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, Teju Cole's Open City seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this book is a mature, profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our world.

Biografía del autor

Teju Cole (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1975) creció en Nigeria y en 1992 se estableció en Estados Unidos. Es escritor, fotógrafo e historiador del arte. Debutó en 2007 con la presente obra, a la que siguió Ciudad abierta (Acantilado , 2012), novela aclamada y galardonada con el Premio PEN/ Hemingway, el New York City Book Award for Fiction y el Premio Rosenthal de la American Academy of Arts and Letters. En la actualidad vive en Nueva York.