Known and Strange Things By Teju Cole

Known and Strange Things By Teju ColeA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature many of which have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent

an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity

'Beyond the Pale' and 'In the Pride of His Youth'

heart-wrenching saga of a family torn apart by the forces of history

the celtic and Taoist traditions

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but when the tremors begin and things start to quake and crumble

Living alone in an old house

'Forget routine

Why then is Shakti never half a man

vengefulness

but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down

she is forced to confront her ghosts