{"product_id":"tremor-by-teju-cole-9780571283354","title":"Tremor","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTunde, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTremor\u003c\/em\u003e 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. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Open City\u003c\/em\u003e is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter. What it is is a gorgeous, crystalline, and cumulative investigation of memory, identity, and erasure. It gathers its power inexorably, page by page, and ultimately reveals itself as nothing less than a searing tour de force. Teju Cole might just be a W. G. Sebald for the twenty-first century.' - Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, subtle, and finally, original...' - James Wood, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46534217072876,"sku":"9780571283354","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10509653482391.jpg?v=1749417266","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/tremor-by-teju-cole-9780571283354","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}