{"product_id":"tremor-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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeju Cole \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in the United States in 1975 to Nigerian parents and grew up in Lagos. His books include the novel\u003ci\u003e Open City, \u003c\/i\u003e the essay collections \u003ci\u003eKnown and Strange Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Paper\u003c\/i\u003e, and the experimental photo book \u003ci\u003eBlind Spot\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been honored with the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other accolades. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cole is currently a professor of the practice of creative writing at Harvard University and a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878264770834,"sku":"9780812987010","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aba2827d-c58b-4b2d-b85a-96ac743ac519.jpg?v=1744280919","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tremor-9780812987010","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}