Paperback. Pub Date :2012-02-01 272 English Faber & Faber 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 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 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 ...
About the Author
Teju Cole is a novelist, photographer, critic, curator, and the author of seven books, which include Open City, Blind Spot, and Golden Apple of the Sun. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard.
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