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Every Day is for the Thief


  • Random House US
  • by Teju Cole
In spare, precise prose that sees humanity everywhere, interwoven with original photos by the author, Every Day Is for the Thief-originally published in Nigeria in 2007-is a wholly original work of fiction. This revised and updated edition is the first version of this unique book to be made available outside Africa. You've never read a book like Every Day Is for the Thief because no one writes like Teju Cole.

ISBN 9780812985856 | E | PB
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Publisher Random House US
ISBN 9780812985856
Author(s) Teju Cole
Publication date March 2015
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 203 x 132 mm
Pages 192
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Description

A young Nigerian living in New York City goes home to Lagos for a short visit, finding a city both familiar and strange. In a city dense with story, the unnamed narrator moves through a mosaic of life, hoping to find inspiration for his own. He witnesses the "yahoo yahoo" diligently perpetrating email frauds from an Internet café, longs after a mysterious woman reading on a public bus who disembarks and disappears into a bookless crowd, and recalls the tragic fate of an eleven-year-old boy accused of stealing at a local market. Along the way, the man reconnects with old friends, a former girlfriend, and extended family, taps into the energies of Lagos life-creative, malevolent, ambiguous-and slowly begins to reconcile the profound changes that have taken place in his country and the truth about himself. In spare, precise prose that sees humanity everywhere, interwoven with original photos by the author, Every Day Is for the Thief-originally published in Nigeria in 2007-is a wholly original work of fiction. This revised and updated edition is the first version of this unique book to be made available outside Africa. You've never read a book like Every Day Is for the Thief because no one writes like Teju Cole.

Every Day is for the Thief

Every Day is for the Thief

€16.50