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Every Day is for the Thief

Every Day is for the Thief


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About the Book

The 'prequel' to the international bestseller, Open City.
 
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. Like him, the country of his childhood 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 modern Nigeria runs like clockwork-as long as you pay the fee. A bribe for the visa clerk, a 'Christmas gift' at immigration, cash-no receipt-at the unofficial tollbooth. Petrol pumps are rigged to overcharge and Internet cafes overflow with career scammers ('Dear friend...'), but the police are too busy doling out bogus fines to care. In a country routinely plundered of its oil and ancient treasures, who is to say who can thieve and who can't?
 
As our narrator makes the difficult journey back to his family house and its memories, he is confronted by the paradox of a country he wants to love, as burdened by its impoverished past as it is blinded by the spoils of the future. Every Day is for the thief-now published for the first time outside Nigeria-is a candid tale of political and spiritual corruption and a moving account of what it means to go home.
 
About the Author
 
Teju Cole was brought up in Nigeria and moved to the USA in 1992. He is a writer, photographer and professional historian of early Netherlandish art. His novel Open City won the PEN / Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for fiction and the Internationaler Literaturpreis and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in New York City.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780571307920
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Binding: HARDBACK
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Weight: 263 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0571307922
  • Publisher Date: 26 Mar 2014
  • Depth: 17
  • Language: ENGLISH
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 135 mm

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