A collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. It comes with pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature. It covers subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W G Sebald, Instagram, Barack Obama and Boko Haram.
A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. The country of his childhood has changed: it has found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority and the all-consuming draw of 'money for nothing'.
This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature. Praise for Open City:'Open City is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter.