Industry Reviews
Advance praise for "Every Day Is for the Thief"
""Every Day is for the Thief "is an amazing hybrid of a book. Imaginative, original, experimental, and sensual, this book revisits the way narrative is constructed with tenderness and style."--Chris Abani, author of "Graceland"
Praise for "Open City"
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
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"An indelible debut . . . a compassionate and masterly work.""--The New York Times Book Review"
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"Beautiful, subtle, [and] original.""--The New Yorker"
"A psychological hand grenade."--"The Atlantic"
"Magnificent . . . a remarkably resonant feat of prose.""--The Seattle Times"
Praise for "Every Day Is for the Thief"
"Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs."--Billy Collins
""Every Day is for the Thief "is an amazing hybrid of a book. Imaginative, original, experimental, and sensual, this book revisits the way narrative is constructed with tenderness and style."--Chris Abani, author of "Graceland"
Praise for "Open City"
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
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"An indelible debut . . . a compassionate and masterly work.""--The New York Times Book Review"
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"Beautiful, subtle, [and] original.""--The New Yorker"
"A psychological hand grenade."--"The Atlantic"
"Magnificent . . . a remarkably resonant feat of prose.""--The Seattle Times"
Praise for "Every Day Is for the Thief"
""Every Day Is for the Thief, "by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation."--Salman Rushdie
""Every Day Is for the Thief" is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs."--Billy Collins
""Every Day Is for the Thief "is an amazing hybrid of a book. Imaginative, original, experimental, and sensual, this book revisits the way narrative is constructed with tenderness and style."--Chris Abani, author of "Graceland"
"[Teju Cole] casts a spell that's hard to classify. . . . "Open City" earned its author comparisons to the German writer W. G. Sebald, whose work wanders and ruminates in a similar way. "Every Day Is for the Thief" includes photos that Mr. Cole took in Lagos, a Sebaldian touch that is likely to keep the comparisons coming."--"The New York Times "("Great Expectations for 2014")
Praise for "Open City"
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
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"An indelible debut . . . a compassionate and masterly work.""--The New York Times Book Review"
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"Beautiful, subtle, [and] original.""--The New Yorker"
"A psychological hand grenade."--"The Atlantic"
"Magnificent . . . a remarkably resonant feat of prose.""--The Seattle Times"
Praise for "Every Day Is for the Thief"
""Every Day Is for the Thief, "by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation."--Salman Rushdie
""Every Day Is for the Thief" is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs."--Billy Collins
""Every Day Is for the Thief "is an amazing hybrid of a book. Imaginative, original, experimental, and sensual, this book revisits the way narrative is constructed with tenderness and style."--Chris Abani, author of "Graceland"
"[Teju Cole] casts a spell that's hard to classify. . . . "Open City" earned its author comparisons to the German writer W. G. Sebald, whose work wanders and ruminates in a similar way. "Every Day Is for the Thief" includes photos that Mr. Cole took in Lagos, a Sebaldian touch that is likely to keep the comparisons coming."--"The New York Times "("Great Expectations for 2014")
"Versatile, courageous, and hopeful . . . Cole writes without shock absorbers, and the ride is as terrifying as it is gorgeously set."--"Interview"
Praise for "Open City"
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
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"An indelible debut . . . a compassionate and masterly work.""--The New York Times Book Review"
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"Beautiful, subtle, [and] original.""--The New Yorker"
"A psychological hand grenade."--"The Atlantic"
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""Every Day Is for the Thief, "by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation."--Salman Rushdie
""Every Day Is for the Thief" is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs."--Billy Collins
""Every Day Is for the Thief "is an amazing hybrid of a book. Imaginative, original, experimental, and sensual, this book revisits the way narrative is constructed with tenderness and style."--Chris Abani, author of "Graceland"
"[Teju Cole] casts a spell that's hard to classify. . . . "Open City" earned its author comparisons to the German writer W. G. Sebald, whose work wanders and ruminates in a similar way. "Every Day Is for the Thief" includes photos that Mr. Cole took in Lagos, a Sebaldian touch that is likely to keep the comparisons coming."--"The New York Times "("Great Expectations for 2014")
"Rich imagery and sharp prose . . . widely praised as one of the best fictional depictions of Africa in recent memory."--"The New Yorker"
""Every Day Is for the Thief" is unapologetically a novel of ideas: a diagnosis of the systemic corruption in Cole's native Lagos and of corruption's psychological effects. But, remarkably, the book avoids any of the chunkiness that usually accompanies such work. Emotional and intellectual life are woven too tightly together. The ideas make the character and vice versa."--"The New Republic"
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"[Teju Cole's] novels are lean, expertly sustained performances. The places he can go, you feel, are just about limitless."--"The New York Times"
""Every Day Is for the Thief, "by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation."--Salman Rushdie
"Crisp, affecting . . . Taking his cues from W. G. Sebald, John Berger, and Bruce Chatwin, Cole constructs a narrative of fragments, a series of episodes that he allows to resonate."--"The New York Times Book Review"
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"Remarkable . . . By the end of the novel the accumulation of experience has left both the narrator and the reader changed. . . . This is an extraordinary novel, a radiant meditation on the nature of happiness and faith, corruption, misfortune and belonging."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
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"Cole is our premier novelist of walking out the door and getting mixed up in something. . . . [He] has a knack for elevating each individual encounter into something weighty and poetic."--"The Washington Post"
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"Shimmering . . . Cole has a way of superimposing emotional landscapes over his portraits of physical places that is transcendent. "Every Day Is for the Thief" is as much as an epic journey into the heart of the traveler as the place traveled."--"The Seattle Times"
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""Every Day Is for the Thief" is a wonderful meditation on modern African life that will help cement Cole's reputation as a prose stylist. More than that, it is a book that never fails to find a thoughtful and essential thing to say, with each of its finely crafted sentences and paragraphs offering a vision of justice and order to a people beset by so many woes."--"Los Angeles Times"
"[A] tightly focused but still ma
