Agenda: Teju Cole over Open City (John Adams Institute)

29 mei 2012

Teju Cole is rapidly becoming a new literary sensation in America. His novel Open City - which won the 2012 Pen/Hemingway Award and the New York City Book Award - is unlike anything you’ve ever read. The narrator, Julius, is a Nigerian psychiatry student who lives in Manhattan and likes to walk in the city. As he does, he has encounters. Most are small. He watches children playing in a park. He discovers that the woman next door died recently, and is quietly devastated, though he hardly knew her.  The novel’s blended texture reminds you of something: real life. You get a sense of this man and this city, but also of how we construct ourselves. The Seattle Times called it “Magnificent and shattering. A remarkably resonant feat of prose”. Join us for a special literary event on May 29th with the John Adams Institute.

Kaarten zijn te koop bij het John Adams Institute.

Moderator: Russell Shorto
When: 29 May 2012, 8pm
Where: Booking.com - Herengracht 597

We publiceerden al voor uit de Nederlandse vertaling, Wim Brands bezocht de auteur in Nieuwkomers, het boek is onderdeel van de #twitlit-leesclub van Bas Heijne, en uw redacteur schreef er al een bespreking over voor NRC Handelsblad ('besproken in NRC', onder de samenvatting van Heijne).