Every day is for the thief : fiction

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The work Every day is for the thief : fiction represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Every day is for the thief : fiction

Title remainder

fiction

Statement of responsibility

Teju Cole ; with photos by the author

Creator

• Cole, Teju

Subject

• FICTION / Cultural Heritage
• FICTION / Literary
• Homecoming -- Nigeria | Lagos -- Fiction
• Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Life change events -- Fiction
• FICTION / African American / General
• Nigeria -- Fiction
• Nigerians -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Reunions -- Nigeria | Lagos -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local. A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities in the world: he hears the muezzin's call to prayer in the early morning light, and listens to John Coltrane during the late afternoon heat. He witnesses teenagers diligently perpetrating e-mail frauds from internet cafes, longs after a woman reading Michael Ondaatje on a public bus, and visits the impoverished National Museum. Along the way, he reconnects with old school friends and his family, who force him to ask himself profound questions of personal and national history. Over long, wandering days, the narrator compares present-day Lagos to the Lagos of his memory, and in doing so reveals changes that have taken place in himself. Just as Open City uses New York to reveal layers of the narrator's soul, in Every Day is for the Thief the complex, beautiful, generous, and corrupt city of Lagos exposes truths about our protagonist, and ourselves"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.92

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9387.9.C67

LC item number

E84 2014

Literary form

fiction