Tremor

Teju Cole

£9.99

This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.

Paperback

Fiction

ISBN: 9780571283361

Description

 

Life is hopeless but it is not serious.

We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.

Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus.

He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films.

One man’s personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.

A weekend spent shopping for antiques is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land.

A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism.

A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions.

And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis.

Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it.

It is a reckoning with human survival amidst “history’s own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles” – but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy.

 

 


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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm