{"product_id":"tremor-a-novel","title":"Tremor","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn “extraordinary, ambitious” (The Times UK) novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world—from the award-winning author of Open City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Cole’s mind is so agile that it’s easy to follow him anywhere.”—The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Vulture, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTremor 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 Open City, Teju Cole once again offers narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Live the Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45298358288450,"sku":"9780812997118","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9780812997118.jpg?v=1790963072","url":"https:\/\/longlivethebookstore.com\/products\/tremor-a-novel","provider":"Long Live the Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}