Open City By Teju Cole

Open City By Teju ColeThe bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty first century W. G. Sebald. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic.

This edition also includes a chronology

Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years

and the Prophet

two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls

How to Work Without Fatigue

fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board

and Hekla knows she must escape to find freedom abroad

I realise that the tales of his brutality aren't true

What makes the sky dark in the night and blue in the morning

Regarded by many as her greatest work

scratched glasses

is an inspiration to millions