{"product_id":"every-day-is-for-the-thief-fiction-9780812985856","title":"Every Day Is for the Thief: Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES - \u003c\/i\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Root \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e The Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e The Globe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FINALIST, PHILLIS WHEATLEY BOOK AWARD - TEJU COLE WAS NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AFRICANS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eNEW AFRICAN\u003c\/i\u003e MAGAZINE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief\u003c\/i\u003e is a wholly original work of fiction by Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, \u003ci\u003eOpen City, \u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the PEN\/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by more than twenty publications. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifteen years is a long time to be away from home. It feels longer still because I left under a cloud.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A young Nigerian living in New York City goes home to Lagos for a short visit, finding a city both familiar and strange. In a city dense with story, the unnamed narrator moves through a mosaic of life, hoping to find inspiration for his own. He witnesses the \"yahoo yahoo\" diligently perpetrating email frauds from an Internet caf , longs after a mysterious woman reading on a public bus who disembarks and disappears into a bookless crowd, and recalls the tragic fate of an eleven-year-old boy accused of stealing at a local market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Along the way, the man reconnects with old friends, a former girlfriend, and extended family, taps into the energies of Lagos life--creative, malevolent, ambiguous--and slowly begins to reconcile the profound changes that have taken place in his country and the truth about himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn spare, precise prose that sees humanity everywhere, interwoven with original photos by the author, \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief\u003c\/i\u003e--originally published in Nigeria in 2007--is a wholly original work of fiction. This revised and updated edition is the first version of this unique book to be made available outside Africa. You've never read a book like \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief\u003c\/i\u003e because no one writes like Teju Cole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A luminous rumination on storytelling and place, exile and return . . . extraordinary.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Cole is following in a long tradition of writerly walkers who, in the tradition of Baudelaire, make their way through urban spaces on foot and take their time doing so. Like Alfred Kazin, Joseph Mitchell, J. M. Coetzee, and W. G. Sebald (with whom he is often compared), Cole adds to the literature in his own zeitgeisty fashion.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812985856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.05h x 5.30w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/05\/2015 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Teju Cole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644457480348,"sku":"9780812985856","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e0040470-6581-4a57-9795-63bcf2ff943d.jpg?v=1603858674","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/every-day-is-for-the-thief-fiction-9780812985856","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}