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"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 cafés, 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."--From publisher description.
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Nigerians, Life change events, Identity (Psychology), Reunions, Homecoming, Fiction, FICTION, Literary, Amerikanisches Englisch, African American, General, Cultural Heritage, Identity, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / African American / General, Roman, Nigeria, fiction, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, cultural heritagePlaces
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Every day is for the thief: fiction
2015
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- 2015 Random House Trade paperback edition.
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Every Day Is for the Thief: Fiction
Mar 25, 2014, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
hardcover
0812995783 9780812995787
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"Originally published in Nigeria by Cassava Republic Press in 2007 in different form and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of Random House LLC, in 2014"--Title page verso.
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