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This Is Not a Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
AvJ.M. Coetzee,William Sutcliffem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
209 kr
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________________'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' - Suad Amiry________________The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, ‘the power of culture over the culture of power’.Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems and stories from some of the world’s most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and courage in the most desperate of situations.Contributors: Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Victoria Brittain, Jehan Bseiso, Teju Cole, Molly Crabapple, Selma Dabbagh, Mahmoud Darwish, Najwan Darwish, Geoff Dyer, Yasmin El-Rifae, Adam Foulds, Ru Freeman, Omar Robert Hamilton, Suheir Hammad, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Holmes, John Horner, Remi Kanazi, Brigid Keenan, Mercedes Kemp, Omar El-Khairy, Nancy Kricorian, Sabrina Mahfouz, Jamal Mahjoub, Henning Mankell, Claire Messud, China Miéville, Pankaj Mishra, Deborah Moggach, Muiz, Maath Musleh, Michael Palin, Ed Pavlic, Atef Abu Saif, Kamila Shamsie, Raja Shehadeh, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Linda Spalding, Will Sutcliffe, Alice WalkerWith messages from China Achebe, Michael Ondaatje and J. M. Coetzee________________'Every literary act, whether it is a great epic poem or an honest piece of journalism or a simple nonsense tale for children is a blow against the forces of stupidity and ignorance and darkness … The Palestine Festival of Literature exists to do just that – and I salute it for its work. Not only this year but for as long as it is necessary' - Philip Pullman
Known and Strange Things
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
192 kr
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Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA 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 literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices, covering subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W.G Sebald, Instagram, Barack Obama and Boko Haram. Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole's wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames.
Skälvning
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
2,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
239 kr
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Skälvning är hjärtskärande och ömsint… en bok som vidgar och osäkrar vår upplevelse av tjugohundratalet.

The Guardian

Skälvning utforskar vad som utgör ett meningsfullt liv i en våldsam värld – av den prisbelönta författaren till Öppen stad.

Under en helg med vänner på tur mellan antikaffärer i Maine, kastas en plötslig skugga över de koloniala grymheterna som fortfarande präglar platsen. En promenad i skymningen avbryts av brutal vardagsrasism. En enastående kaskad av röster talar ut från en pulserande afrikansk metropol.

Och i romanens kärna mötet mellan Tunde och hans partner Sadoko som glider in och ut ur varandras liv. Genom parets längtan undersöker Cole meningen med separation och närhet, tid och dödlighet.

Precis som i sin magnifika debut Öppen stad lägger Teju Cole ett labyrintisk historisk pussel där alla sinnen är på påslagna. Skälvning är ett nytt mästerverk av en av samtidens mest särpräglade författare.

Teju Cole föddes i USA år 1975 till nigerianska föräldrar och växte upp i Lagos. På svenska finns sedan tidigare romanerna Öppen stad och Varje dag är tjuvens dag, samt essäsamlingen Kända och okända underliga ting. Han har belönats med flera litterära priser, är professor i kreativt skrivande vid Harvard University och medarbetande skribent för The New York Times Magazine.
Open City
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska
208 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Kända och underliga ting : essäer
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Svenska, 2017
2,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
229 kr
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Utsedd till en av årets bästa böcker 2016 av Time, The Guardian, Harper’s Bazaar och San Francisco Chronicle.Med romanen Öppen stad fick Teju Cole sitt internationella genombrott och blev en av vår tids mest angelägna röster. Essäboken Kända och underliga ting återspeglar Teju Coles passion för människan och hennes värld. Med texter om litteratur, fotografi , historia och politik dyker han ner i ämnen som James Baldwin och Virginia Woolf, Tomas Tranströmer och W. G. Sebald, Barack Obama och Black Lives Matter. Med en förmåga att vara nyanserad och stridbar på samma gång håller Cole fram en värld full av komplexitet och motsägelser, skönhet och fara.Teju Cole är författare, fotograf och konsthistoriker. Han fick sitt internationella genombrott med den prisbelönta romanen Öppen stad som kom ut på svenska 2013. Två år senare utkom romanen Varje dag är tjuvens dag. Teju Cole bor i Brooklyn, New York."Coles essäer är briljanta - skarpa, intelligenta - och visar på en trivsam älskvärdhet. Hans variationsrika prosa är oklanderlig, när han så önskar. Hans djupa kunnande tillämpas ödmjukt."New York Review of Books"... han är en sådan vass och oberäknelig skribent. Oavsett om han skriver om Boko Haram eller Brahms, Kieslowski eller Kofi Awoonor (poeten som dödades i terrorattentatet i Nairobi 2013) är han klartänkt, nyfiken och besvärlig. Man blir nyfiken på det man inte har hört talas om, och får en ny syn på det som är bekant. Sträckläsning av bokens 55 essäer ger lätt åksjuka, det är en sjuhelvetes bildningsresa."Erik Eje Almqvist, Filter"Kulturellt spänstigt och infallsrikt"Nina Solomin, Upsala Nya Tidning"Det är svårt att inte imponeras av bredden och djupet i Coles kunskaper inom så vitt skilda fält. Jag måste erkänna att läsningen var en bildningsresa också för mig, där jag var tvungen att slå upp många av de konstnärer och fotografer han refererar till. Cole tar emellertid på sig rollen som introduktör lika avslappnat och självsäkert som han skriver romaner: han låter det som är komplicerat vara svårt, men visar alltid på nya vägar att förstå det han skriver om ... Cole låter sanningen vara så komplex, multipolär och motsägelsefull som han ser den - utan att någonsin förlora greppet om den egna textens riktning."Måns Wadensjö, Svenska Dagbladet"Essäsamlingen är bildande på det djupgående sätt som förvandlar en bok till en läserfarenhet i stället för en läsupplevelse. I det politiskt deprimerade klimat vi befinner oss i känns den stärkande."Maja Lundgren, Upsala Nya Tidning"Som allra bäst, och när Teju Cole är riktigt bra är han bättre än nästan alla andra, är bokens avslutande del. Litteraturen och konsten är med här också men texterna får slå ut i hela kroppen på läsaren, inte bara huvudet, och bli till öppna platser snarare än stängda rum.”Anna Hellgren, Expressen"Märkligt nog ger Kända och underliga ting en vilopaus från det deppiga världsläget ... hans poetiska, mjuka, långsamma språk, som översättaren Erik MacQueen följsamt lyckats överföra till svenska, gör hans essäer trösterika. Han tar som ett enormt flygfoto över världen, får med både konflikter, konst och fotografi, kopplar nuet till historien, visar sambanden, precis som i Öppen stad. Han gör det elegant och ledigt, ofta med alla sinnen på vid gavel, utan tvärsäkra debattåsikter."Lina Kalmteg, Svenska DagbladetOriginalets titel: Known and Strange ThingsÖversättning: Erik MacQueenOmslagsfoto: Teju ColeOmslag: Sara R. Acedo
Black Paper
Writing in a Dark Time
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
127 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations on the essay form, modeling ways to attend to experience—not just to take in but to think critically about what we sense and what we don’t.Wide-ranging but thematically unified, the essays address ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. Cole’s writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts, the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature and activism. Throughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of thinking about blackness and its numerous connotations. As he describes the carbon-copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white sheet. Black transported the meaning.”
Öppen stad : roman
AvTeju Cole
Pocket, Svenska, 2014
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(23)
89 kr
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Black Paper
Writing in a Dark Time
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
239 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness. Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black Paper he is writing at the peak of his skill, as he models how to be closely attentive to experience—to not just see and take in, but to think critically about what we are seeing and not seeing. Wide-ranging in their subject matter, the essays are connected by ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. Cole’s writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts, the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature and activism. Throughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of thinking about the color black and its numerous connotations. As he describes the carbon copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white. Black transported the meaning.”
Blind Spot
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
485 kr
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Open City
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
4,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(5)
127 kr
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The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald.A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic.Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York - as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul.
Open City
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
17 kr
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'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 things that I remembered with outsize intensity.'Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation. But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey-which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, Teju Cole's Open City seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this book is a mature, profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our world.
Tremor
'Dazzling.' Deborah Levy
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
127 kr
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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.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques 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 speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that 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. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.Praise for Open City:'Open City is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter. What it is is a gorgeous, crystalline, and cumulative investigation of memory, identity, and erasure. It gathers its power inexorably, page by page, and ultimately reveals itself as nothing less than a searing tour de force. Teju Cole might just be a W. G. Sebald for the twenty-first century.'Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See'Beautiful, subtle, and finally, original...'James Wood, The New Yorker
Tremor
'Dazzling.' Deborah Levy
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
17 kr
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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.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques 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 speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that 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. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.Praise for Open City:'Open City is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter. What it is is a gorgeous, crystalline, and cumulative investigation of memory, identity, and erasure. It gathers its power inexorably, page by page, and ultimately reveals itself as nothing less than a searing tour de force. Teju Cole might just be a W. G. Sebald for the twenty-first century.'Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See'Beautiful, subtle, and finally, original...'James Wood, The New Yorker
Every Day is for the Thief
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
17 kr
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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 the way, our narrator encounters life in Lagos. He is captivated by a woman reading on a danfo; attempts to check his email are frustrated by Yahoo boys; he is charmingly duped buying fuel. He admires the grace of an aunty, bereaved by armed robbers and is inspired by the new malls and cultural venues. The question is: should he stay or should he leave?But before the story can even begin, he has to queue for his visa..Every Day is for the Thiefis a striking portrait of Nigeria in change. Through a series of cinematic portraits of everyday life in Lagos, Teju Cole provides a fresh approach to the returnee experience.- See more at: http://www.cassavarepublic.biz/products/every-day-is-for-the-thief#sthash.qe7r4oNv.dpuf
Every Day is for the Thief
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
127 kr
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A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. The country of his childhood has changed: it has found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority and the all-consuming draw of 'money for nothing'. From the consulate back in Manhattan to the dusty streets of Lagos, life runs like clockwork -- as long as you can pay the fee: a bribe for the visa clerk; a 'Christmas gift' at immigration. Petrol pumps overcharge and internet cafes overflow with scammers. Every Day is for the Thief is a candid tale of political and spiritual corruption, and a moving account of what it means to go home.
Known and Strange Things
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
17 kr
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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 literature - many of which have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe - Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people and historical moments. Cole tells of his engagement with Virginia Woolf through her diaries, before reflecting on an episode of temporary blindness in New York. He looks at the rise of Instagram and interrogates the value of its images. He examines the transition of the candidate Obama, the avid reader, into a 'forever-war' president on the global stage. Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole's wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames.'A book written with a scalpel, a microscope, and walking shoes, full of telling details and sometimes big surprises.' Rebecca Solnit
Blind Spot
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
274 kr
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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 City. In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography. Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.
Blind Spot
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
15 kr
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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 City. In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography. Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.
Tremor
'Dazzling.' Deborah Levy
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
163 kr
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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.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques 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 speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that 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. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.Praise for Open City:'Open City is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter. What it is is a gorgeous, crystalline, and cumulative investigation of memory, identity, and erasure. It gathers its power inexorably, page by page, and ultimately reveals itself as nothing less than a searing tour de force. Teju Cole might just be a W. G. Sebald for the twenty-first century.'Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See'Beautiful, subtle, and finally, original...'James Wood, The New Yorker
Open City
A Novel
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
80 kr
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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 Globe • The Seattle Times • Minneapolis Star Tribune • GQ • Salon • Slate • New York magazine • The Week • The Kansas City Star • Kirkus ReviewsA haunting novel about identity, dislocation, and history, Teju Cole’s Open City is a profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our country and our world. Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius wanders, reflecting on his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. He encounters people from different cultures and classes who will provide insight on his journey—which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.“[A] prismatic debut . . . beautiful, subtle, [and] original.”—The New Yorker “A psychological hand grenade.”—The Atlantic “Magnificent . . . a remarkably resonant feat of prose.”—The Seattle Times “A precise and poetic meditation on love, race, identity, friendship, memory, [and] dislocation.”—The Economist
Known and Strange Things: Essays
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
325 kr
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Every Day Is for the Thief
Fiction
AvTeju Cole
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
96 kr
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle | NPR | The Root | The Telegraph | The Globe and MailNATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST, PHILLIS WHEATLEY BOOK AWARD • TEJU COLE WAS NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICANS OF THE YEAR BY NEW AFRICAN MAGAZINEFor 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. Praise for Every Day Is for the Thief“A luminous rumination on storytelling and place, exile and return . . . extraordinary.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Cole is following in a long tradition of writerly walkers who, in the tradition of Baudelaire, make their way through urban spaces on foot and take their time doing so. Like Alfred Kazin, Joseph Mitchell, J. M. Coetzee, and W. G. Sebald (with whom he is often compared), Cole adds to the literature in his own zeitgeisty fashion.”—The Boston Globe “Crisp, affecting . . . Cole constructs a narrative of fragments, a series of episodes that he allows to resonate.”—The New York Times Book Review “Hugely rewarding . . . both a celebration of one of the world’s most vibrant cities and a lament over what can be one of the most frustrating and difficult places to live. It is also a story of family breakup and an uneasy homecoming—the narrator has been away for fifteen years and must relearn how to navigate a place that was once home.”—NPR“[Every Day Is for the Thief has] a restraint that allows [Cole] to slip in these exquisitely rendered observations on life, love, art that leave you feeling richer and more attuned to your own reality once you’ve finished reading.”—Dinaw Mengestu, The AtlanticFrom the Hardcover edition.
This Is Not a Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
AvJ.M. Coetzee,William Sutcliffem. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
216 kr
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________________''This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one'' - New Statesman''Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you'' - Suad Amiry________________The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, ''the power of culture over the culture of power''.Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems and stories from some of the world''s most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and courage in the most desperate of situations.Contributors: Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Victoria Brittain, Jehan Bseiso, Teju Cole, Molly Crabapple, Selma Dabbagh, Mahmoud Darwish, Najwan Darwish, Geoff Dyer, Yasmin El-Rifae, Adam Foulds, Ru Freeman, Omar Robert Hamilton, Suheir Hammad, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Holmes, John Horner, Remi Kanazi, Brigid Keenan, Mercedes Kemp, Omar El-Khairy, Nancy Kricorian, Sabrina Mahfouz, Jamal Mahjoub, Henning Mankell, Claire Messud, China Miéville, Pankaj Mishra, Deborah Moggach, Muiz, Maath Musleh, Michael Palin, Ed Pavlic, Atef Abu Saif, Kamila Shamsie, Raja Shehadeh, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Linda Spalding, Will Sutcliffe, Alice WalkerWith messages from China Achebe, Michael Ondaatje and J. M. Coetzee________________''Every literary act, whether it is a great epic poem or an honest piece of journalism or a simple nonsense tale for children is a blow against the forces of stupidity and ignorance and darkness … The Palestine Festival of Literature exists to do just that – and I salute it for its work. Not only this year but for as long as it is necessary'' - Philip Pullman
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting
AvHal Foster,Teju Cole
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
504 kr
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Kerry James Marshall is one of America’s greatest living painters. History of Painting presents a groundbreaking body of new work that engages with the history of the medium itself.In Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting, the artist has widened his scope to include both figurative and nonfigurative works that deal explicitly with art history, race, and gender, as well as paintings that force us to reexamine how artworks are received in the world and in the art market. In all the paintings in this book, Marshall’s critique of history and of dominant white narratives is present, even as the subjects of the paintings move between reproductions of auction catalogues, abstract works, and scenes of everyday life.Essays by Hal Foster and Teju Cole help readers navigate Marshall’s masterful vision, decoding complexly layered works such as Untitled (Underpainting), 2018, and Marshall’s own artistic philosophy. This catalogue is published on the occasion of Marshall’s eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, London in 2018.
Every Day is for the Thief. Buch + Klett Augmented
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
140 kr
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Fremder im Dorf / Schwarzer Körper
AvJames Baldwin,Teju Cole
Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
271 kr
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Fremder im Dorf / Schwarzer Körper
AvJames Baldwin,Teju Cole
E-bok
Tyska, 2024
190 kr
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James Baldwin reist erstmals im Sommer 1951 nach Leukerbad, das, so denkt der Schriftsteller, wenig Ablenkung und somit optimale Voraussetzungen zum Schreiben bieten würde. Die sechshundert Menschen, die in dem von Bergen umringten Walliser Dorf leben, wo es kein Kino gibt und keine Bank, keine Bücherei und kein Theater, haben noch nie einen Schwarzen gesehen, die Kinder rufen ihm »N***r!« hinterher. Im Winter kehrt Baldwin noch zweimal zurück, schließt hier seinen ersten Roman ab und verfasst den Essay »Ein Fremder im Dorf«, der 1953 im Harper''s Magazine erscheint. Ausgehend von der Erfahrung, der einzige Schwarze in einem ausschließlich von Weißen bewohnten Dorf zu sein, schreibt Baldwin über Rassismus und die Geschichte weißer Vorherrschaft. Mehr als sechzig Jahre später, im Sommer 2014, reist Teju Cole nach Leukerbad, Baldwins Essay im Gepäck. In »Schwarzer Körper« tritt Cole mit Baldwin in den Dialog. Sind die älteren Menschen, denen er auf der Straße begegnet, die Kinder von damals? Das Dorf ist gewachsen. Cole ist kein »staunenswerter Anblick«, ist nicht häufiger verstohlenen Blicken ausgesetzt als in Zürich oder New York. Sechzig Jahre trennen die beiden Autoren, ein Ort führt sie zusammen, und obwohl sich die Dinge geändert haben, besteht der Rassismus fort.
Black Paper
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Tyska, 2023
287 kr
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Tremor
AvTeju Cole
Inbunden, Tyska, 2024
284 kr
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Jeder Tag gehört dem Dieb
AvTeju Cole
Häftad, Tyska, 2024
173 kr
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