Tremor

Tremor

By Teju Cole

Pages

239

Rating

3.84

Year

2023

ContemporaryFictionAfricaLiteratureNigeriaNovels

Description

Tunde, 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.

A 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 speaks out from a pulsing metropolis. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.

Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. This is storytelling with all its senses alert — from a beacon of contemporary literature.

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