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Every Day Is For The Thief
Teju Cole
Random House
April 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
175 pages
ISBN: 0812995783
EAN: 9780812995787
Kindle: B00FIN2IUY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael
Ondaatje, Every Day Is for the Thief is a wholly
original work of fiction by Teju Cole, whose critically
acclaimed debut, Open City, was the winner of the
PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the best books of
the year by more than twenty publications. Fifteen years is a long time to be away from home. It
feels longer still because I left under a cloud. 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.
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