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Open City
A General Fiction Novel by Teju Cole
Subgenres:
- Literary Fiction,
- Psychological Fiction,
- Immigrant Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Urban wandering that blurs city streets with inner landscapes
- Quiet introspection on identity, memory, and cultural dislocation
- Encounters with strangers that shift your sense of belonging
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor named Julius doing his residency wanders aimlessly.
The walks are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup, his present, his past.
Though he’s navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation.
Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures and classes who provide insight on his journey—which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, and into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul.
Seething with intelligence and written in a clear, rhythmic voice, Open City is a haunting, mature, profound work about our country and our world.
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