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Open City by Teju Cole: Review

Teju Cole's meditative novel about a Nigerian immigrant in New York is the best, and darkest, first novel of this early year, writes critic Taylor Antrim. Read it.

Taylor Antrim
Taylor Antrim
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Taylor Antrim

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