Every Day Is for the Thief (Hardcover)

from Casey_Marie

This "novel" reads like a memoir-travelogue hybrid and offers an incisive vignette into the ethos of Nigeria and people of this country. Teju Cole's perspective has been criticized as distant, lacking empathy, and although his nameless narrator suffers from disillusionment, there remains a profou...

from ozzer

Teju Cole's provocative short novel is a mixture of memoir, travelogue and meditation on Nigeria. The photos included by the author strongly suggest that his claim of this being fiction may be disingenuous. The unnamed narrator returns to Nigeria after 15 years in the US only to find that it and ...

from Laura400

I think it's an excellent book. It was written seven years ago, but only published now in America in the wake of the success of Open City. It's billed as a novel, but it reminds me of V.S. Naipaul's hybrid works of fiction and non-fiction. It displays the critical, sometimes brutal, honesty of Na...

from Beamis12

I believe this is the third book in the last two weeks that I have read that featured an unnamed narrator. So our unnamed narrator returns to his home country Lagos, after a fifteen year absence and he finds so many things that are different. He meets a first cousin, a young lady who was born jus...

from maryreinert

Some reviews have complained this is not a novel but a travelogue or memoir, but who cares what it is called. It is a riveting story of one man's journey back to his native country of Nigeria. Crime, unreliable infrastructure, racism, poverty, theft, bribery are everywhere, but so is family, frie...