Teju Cole Libros Populares
Teju Cole Biografía y Hechos
Teju Cole, llamado en realidad Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa[1] (Nueva York, 27 de junio de 1975) es un escritor en lengua inglesa, fotógrafo e historiador del arte de origen nigeriano y de nacionalidad nigeriano-estadounidense.[2] Biografía Teju Cole nació en Estados Unidos en una familia de origen nigeriano. Creció en Nigeria y a los 17 años volvió a EE. UU., país donde actualmente reside, en Brooklyn (Nueva York). Se graduó en el Kalamazoo College de Míchigan e hizo un máster en la School of Oriental and African Studies de Londres (Reino Unido). Posteriormente se doctoró por la Columbia University de Nueva York.[3] Ha sido profesor de escritura creativa en el Bard College.[4] Colabora habitualmente con varios medios como The New York Times, The New Yorker, Transition, Tin House o A Public Space. Obra Es autor de varios libros, entre ellos una novela corta titulada Every Day Is for the Thief (Cada día es del ladrón), editada por Cassava Republic de Nigeria en 2007 que retrata su ciudad natal Lagos y[5][6] Ciudad Abierta, la cual es una descripción urbana de Nueva York. Known and Strange Things es su primer libro de ensayos y se publicó en agosto de 2016. Novelas Ciudad abierta (Open City), Barcelona, Editorial Acantilado, 2013. Hafiz (33 tuits en Twitter), enero de 2014.[7] Cada día es del ladrón, Editorial Acantilado, 2016 (publicado originalmente en 2007). Tremor, 2023. Véase también W. G. Sebald Ta-Nehisi Coates Referencias Enlaces externos Web personal de Teju Cole (en inglés) Entrevista en TV3. Descubre los libros populares de Teju Cole. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Teju Cole
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Dreaming To Some Purpose
Colin WilsonColin Wilson is the betenoir of the Oxbridge literary establishment. He never went to university, let alone Oxbridge, yet wrote The Outsider, a brilliant account of the pain of bei...
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Building and Dwelling
Richard Sennett'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Mea...
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Welcome to Lagos
Chibundu OnuzoShortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2018Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacity.They are unlikely allies a private, a housewife, an officer, a mili...
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Called Out of Darkness
Anne Rice'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eye...
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Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
Giacomo LeopardiGiacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian ...
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays
Claire MessudA glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with fer...
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Reflections
Graham GreeneUPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSONWhether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, secondhand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots...
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A Month in Siena
Hisham MatarFROM THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AND MAN BOOKERSHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to ...
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Small Country
Gaël Faye & Sarah ArdizzoneAn international sensation, Small Country is a beautiful but harrowing tale of comingofage in the face of civil war.'A luminous debut novel…Faye dramatises the terrible nostalgia o...
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Barefoot Dogs
Antonio Ruiz-CamachoWinner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 Fiction Finalist for the 2015 W...
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White Tears
Hari Kunzru'Like Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch... A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a pageturning thriller... ' Stylist'A fastpaced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery' Publishers WeeklyA di...
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War Report
Trevor RoyleWhenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists w...
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The Crooked Timber Of Humanity
Isaiah BerlinIsaiah Berlin is regarded by many as one of the greatest historians of ideas of his time. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity, he argues passionately, eloquently, and subtly, that wh...
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Black Paper
Teju ColeMenschlichkeit und Kunst in Zeiten des UmbruchsTeju Coles neue Essays kreisen um die Frage, wie wir in Zeiten der Dunkelheit unsere Menschlichkeit bewahren und uns für die Menschli...
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A Blood Condition
Kayo Chingonyi'A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year' Guardian, Books of the Year 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARDSHORTLISTED FO...
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The Wandering Falcon
Jamil AhmadThe Wandering Falcon is Jamil Ahmad's harsh and beautiful portrait of a tribal landscape.SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN ASIAN PRIZE 2011LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC SOUTH ASIAN PRIZE 2013The bo...
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Cash and Curry
Chris Newens2017 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD | FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZEIn this quest across India during the recent cash crisis, Chris Newens follows in the footsteps of TV chef Rick Stein in...
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The Vagrant Mood
William Somerset MaughamThe Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burk...
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Mac and His Problem
Enrique Vila-Matas, Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie HughesLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Enrique VilaMatas's new novel is perhaps his greatest: 'playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists' Colm TóibínSixtys...
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Collected Essays
Graham GreeneCollected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somer...
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A Particular Kind of Black Man
Tope FolarinAn NPR Best Book of 2019A New York Times, Washington Post, Telegraph, and BBC’s most anticipated book of August 2019One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This SummerA stunning de...
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Assembly
Natasha BrownSHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG FIC...
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Bodies In Motion and At Rest
Thomas LynchThe facts of life and death remain the same. We live and die, we love and grieve, we breed and disappear. And between these existential gravities, we search for meaning, save our m...
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Every Day Is for the Thief
Teju ColeNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle | NPR | The Root |&#x...
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Immigrant, Montana
Amitava KumarOne winter morning, a monkey stole into Mamaji's room. He climbed on the huge white bed and finding Mamaji's pistol brandished it they say at my cousin, born two months after me ...
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On Black Sisters' Street
Chika UnigweFour very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they believe Europe promises but when Sisi, the most enigma...
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At Home With The Marquis De Sade
Francine du Plessix GrayDonatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade (17401814), one of the most perplexing personalities of Western culture, has been called 'the freest spirit who ever lived' and 'a frene...
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Serious Money
Caroline Knowles'A latterday Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eyeopening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLo...
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John Fowles
Jonathan Noakes & Margaret ReynoldsThe French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles. Vintage Living Texts...
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The Apartment
Greg BaxterThe Apartment, the astonishing first novel by Greg Baxter, is a tale of war and peace, friendship and aloneness.A man walks across an old European capital. Heavy snow falls. He has...
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Leukerbad 1951 / 2014
James Baldwin & Teju Cole1951, Baldwin est le premier Noir qui séjourne à Leukerbad (Haut Valais, Suisse). Les enfants crient «Neger!», les gens le dévisagent : qui est cet Américain qui ressemble aux indi...
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12 Edmondstone Street
David MaloufEach house, like each place, has its own topography, its own lore. A complex history comes down to us, through household jokes and anecdotes, odd family habits, and irrational supe...
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Walking New York
Stephen MillerWalk along with New York’s most celebrated writers on a tour of the city that inspired them in this “evolving portrait of New York through the centuries” (The New York Observer). &...
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The Hippo with Toothache
Lucy H Spelman & Ted Y MashimaMeet Mohan, a rhino with painfully sore feet.And Patch, a falcon with a broken wishbone.And Kachina, a bear cub with brittle bones.Not to mention Alfredito, a hippo suffering from ...
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Tuesday Nights in 1980
Molly PrentissLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEA dazzling literary debut about three lives colliding in 80s downtown New YorkOn the eve of 1980, downtown New York is t...
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100 Places That Made Britain
Dave MusgroveIn 100, carefully selected places, BBC History Magazine editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s ...
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The Submission
Amy WaldmanA jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing th...
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In Flanders Fields
Trevor RoyleThis anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together wellknown writers like J...
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Antonia White
Jane DunnAntonia White is best known for her masterpiece Frost in May, for having come back from Bedlam and madness, and for the public feud between her daughters over the editing of her di...
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Munich Airport
Greg BaxterMunich Airport: the brilliant, haunting new novel by Greg BaxterAn American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The n...
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Ghettoside
Jill LeovyTHE MULTIAWARD WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4Why would you kill your neighbour?Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the ...
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
Claire Messud'An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art he...
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Blind Spot
Teju ColeThe shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision i...
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Baltimore's Mansion
Wayne JohnstonI am foreborn of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sai...
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Open City
Teju Cole“Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years) “Inf...
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White Girls
Hilton Als'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we a...
