{"product_id":"tremor-book-teju-cole-9780812987010","title":"Tremor","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \"extraordinary, ambitious\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world--from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice * \"Cole's mind is so agile that it's easy to follow him anywhere.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTime, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture,\u003c\/i\u003e Chicago Public Library, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speaks out from a pulsing metropolis.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We're invited to experience these events and others through the eyes and ears of Tunde, a West African man working as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, a traveler, drawn to many different kinds of stories: stories from history and epic; stories of friends, family, and strangers; stories found in books and films. Together these stories make up his days. In aggregate these days comprise a life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTremor\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling work of realism and invention that engages brilliantly with literature, music, race, and history as it examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst \"history's own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles,\" but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. As he did in his magnificent debut \u003ci\u003eOpen City,\u003c\/i\u003e Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51008248971537,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008252313873,"sku":"NIN9780812987010","price":16.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52392403501329,"sku":"CIN0812987012VG","price":9.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52717545128209,"sku":"CIN0812987012G","price":6.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812987012.jpg?v=1750914672","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/tremor-book-teju-cole-9780812987010","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}