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Known and Strange Things: Essays
by Teju Cole

    Publication Date: Aug 09, 2016
    List Price: $16.00
    Format: Paperback, 400 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780812989786
    Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Parent Company: Bertelsmann

    Paperback Description:

    A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief

    With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today’s most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter; the African American photographer Roy DeCarava, who, forced to shoot with film calibrated exclusively for white skin tones, found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects; and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex, the system by which African nations are sentimentally aided by an America “developed on pillage.”

    Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole’s wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities, and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames.




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