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He is the author of every day is for the thief and open city,which won the penhemingway award, the internationaler literaturpreis, the rosenthal family foundation award for fiction from the american academy of arts and letters, and the new york city book award, and was nominated for the national book critics circle award. Advance praise for open city open city is a meditation on history and culture, identity and solitude. Feb 02, 2012 a haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, teju cole s open city seethes with intelligence. Best way to convert your mobi to epub file in seconds. Always, the market as the essence of the city is alive with possibility and with danger. Teju coles open city follows the peripatetic ramblings of its narrator through the streets of new york city. Along the streets of manhattan, a young nigerian doctor named julius wanders, reflecting on his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present. Is a format developed by the international digital publishing forum. If beale street could talk by james baldwin books on. It doesnt do a great job of reading epub books, but any epub book you open in it will be shared over your wifi network to stanza iphone. Julius struggles to understand his identity as an immigrant, an.
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