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Blind Spot by Teju Cole
$45.00 NZD
Category: Photography
The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open Cit ...Show more
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, his childhood country has grown up quickly: found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority; the all-consuming draw of money for nothing. From the consulate in Manhattan to the dusty streets of Lagos, life in mode ...Show more
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and above all, facing up to the paradox of Nigeria, whose present is as burdened by the past as it is facing a new future. Along th ...Show more
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
$24.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A 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 ...Show more
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
$34.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTime - The Guardian - Harper's Bazaar - San Francisco Chronicle - The Atlantic - Financial Times - KirkusFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spiel ...Show more
Open City by Teju Cole
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book - One of the ten top novels of the year --Time and NPR NAMED A BEST BOOK ON MORE THAN TWENTY END-OF-THE-YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING The New Yorker - The Atlantic - The Economist - Newsweek/The Daily Beast - The New Republic - New York Daily News - Los Angeles Times - The Boston G ...Show more
Open City by Teju Cole
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A stunning and acclaimed debut novel following a young man's journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. 'The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few thing ...Show more
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