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Title: Tremor
Author: Teju Cole
ISBN: 9780812987010
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description: <b>An "extraordinary, ambitious" (<i>The Times</i> UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world--from the award-winning author of <i>Open City</i> <p/><i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' Choice - "Cole's mind is so agile that it's easy to follow him anywhere."--<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><b><br><b>WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - </b>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Time, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture, </i>Chicago Public Library, <i> Publishers Weekly, Library Journal</i></b> <p/><i>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.</i> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/><i>Tremor</i> 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 <i>Open City, </i>Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
Author: Teju Cole
ISBN: 9780812987010
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description: <b>An "extraordinary, ambitious" (<i>The Times</i> UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world--from the award-winning author of <i>Open City</i> <p/><i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' Choice - "Cole's mind is so agile that it's easy to follow him anywhere."--<i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><b><br><b>WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - </b>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Time, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture, </i>Chicago Public Library, <i> Publishers Weekly, Library Journal</i></b> <p/><i>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.</i> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/><i>Tremor</i> 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 <i>Open City, </i>Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
