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Open City: A Novel

by Teju Cole

ISBN13: 9780679604495
ISBN10: 0679604499
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Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.

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Teju Cole was raised in Nigeria and came to the United States in 1992. He is a writer, photographer, and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. Open City is his first novel. He lives in New York City.

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ISBN:: 9780679604495
Subtitle:: A Novel
Publisher:: Random House
Author:: Cole, Teju
Subject:: Fiction : Literary
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Identity (psychology)
Subject:: Race
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Subject:: Literature-Debut Fiction
Subject:: NEWARRIVAL-DEBUT FICT
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20110208
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 272

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