{"product_id":"9780571283361","title":"Tremor - Signed Bookplate Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Cole, Teju | Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) \u003cbr\u003ePublished 26\/09\/2024 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e200 x 130 x 15mm | 212g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned Bookplate Edition - Paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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\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\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\n\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":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49316702552361,"sku":"9780571283361","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/tremor-signed-bookplate-edition-the-cleeve-bookshop-98239.jpg?v=1752086124","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780571283361","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}