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Open city

By: Publication details: Faber and Faber 2011 LondonDescription: 259 pISBN:
  • 9780571279432
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.6 C6O7
Summary: A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic. Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York - as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul. https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571279432-open-city.html
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 42-A / Slot 2392 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 813.6 C6O7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 203825

A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic.
Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York - as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul.

https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571279432-open-city.html

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