Tremor by Teju Cole
An extraordinary, ambitious (The Times UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world--from the award-winning author of Open City New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Cole's mind is so agile that it's easy to follow him anywhere.--The New YorkerWINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling. 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. 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. Tremor 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 Open City, Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
Teju Cole is a novelist, photographer, critic, and curator who has written six books, including Open City, Blind Spot, and, most recently, Fernweh, a photobook. From 2015 until 2019, he was the New York Times Magazine's photography critic. He is presently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard, where he was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812997118 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812997115 |
| Title | Tremor |
| Author | Teju Cole |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2023-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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