Known and Strange Things

Descriere

With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices, covering subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W.G Sebald, Instagram, Barack Obama and Boko Haram. 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.

Despre autor

Teju Cole

scriitor american · n. 1975

Teju Cole este un scriitor, fotograf și istoric de artă nigerian. Este autorul unei nuvele, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); unui roman, Open City (2011); unei culegeri de eseuri, Known and Strange Things (2016); unei cărți de fotografie, Punto d'Ombra (2016); și unui al doilea roman, Tremor (2023). Criticii au lăudat opera sa, considerând că „a deschis o nouă cale în literatura africană”.