{"product_id":"9780571283361","title":"Tremor : 'Dazzling.' Deborah Levy","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Cole, Teju \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 10\/10\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571283361,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\u003cp\u003eTremor 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\u003cp\u003ePraise for Open City:'Open City 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 All the Light We Cannot See'Beautiful, subtle, and finally, original...'James Wood, The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43754271146028,"sku":"9780571283361","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571283361.jpg?v=1724751318","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780571283361","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}