Every Day is for the Thief

A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. The country of his childhood has changed: it has found fast-food restaurants, email cafes, contempt for authority and the all-consuming draw of 'money for nothing'. From the consulate back in Manhattan to the dusty streets of Lagos, life runs like clockwork -- as long as you can pay the fee: a bribe for the visa clerk; a 'Christmas gift' at immigration. Petrol pumps overcharge and internet cafes overflow with scammers. Every Day is for the Thief is a candid tale of political and spiritual corruption, and a moving account of what it means to go home.

Report

As readers of Cole's novel Open City will expect, this book is beautifully written, compelling, concise and with a degree of romantic abandon. Philip Hensher Independent on Sunday

Product details

• Authors: Teju Cole
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9780571307944
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30794-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Nigerianische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), wg sebald; geoff dyer; open city; known and strange things