{"product_id":"9780812987010","title":"Tremor","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn “extraordinary, ambitious” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors’ Choice • “Cole’s mind is so agile that it’s easy to follow him anywhere.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • \u003c\/b\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eTime, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture, \u003c\/i\u003eChicago Public Library,\u003ci\u003e Publishers Weekly, Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA weekend spent antiquing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe’re invited to experience these events and others through the eyes and ears of Tunde, a West African man working as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, a traveler, drawn to many different kinds of stories: stories from history and epic; stories of friends, family, and strangers; stories found in books and films. Together these stories make up his days. In aggregate these days comprise a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTremor\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling work of realism and invention that engages brilliantly with literature, music, race, and history as it 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. As he did in his magnificent debut \u003ci\u003eOpen City, \u003c\/i\u003eTeju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.","brand":"Teju Cole","offers":[{"title":"Random House Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-10-01","offer_id":46019451519231,"sku":"9780812987010","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_78d5c5b4-d5c4-40ae-a4c6-c077fdf24eed.jpg?v=1723160619","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780812987010","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}