Known and Strange Things: Essays

Resumen del libro

The first book of essays by Teju Cole, award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief, and one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature and commentary.
Known and Strange Things collects essays on art, literature, politics and place, on subjects ranging from Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin and WG Sebald to President Obama, Palestine and Boko Haram. Many of the essays in the collection have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe. Over the course of these remarkable essays, we follow the arc of Teju Cole's thinking over time, propelled forward by his captivating voice and ever-incisive eye.

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.