{"product_id":"everyday-is-for-the-thief-teju-cole","title":"Everyday is for the Thief - Teju Cole","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFifteen years is a long time to be away from home. It feels longer still because I left under a cloud.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young Nigerian living in New York City goes home to Lagos for a short visit, finding a city both familiar and strange. In a city dense with story, the unnamed narrator moves through a mosaic of life, hoping to find inspiration for his own. He witnesses the “yahoo yahoo” diligently perpetrating email frauds from an Internet café, longs after a mysterious woman reading on a public bus who disembarks and disappears into a bookless crowd, and recalls the tragic fate of an eleven-year-old boy accused of stealing at a local market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, the man reconnects with old friends, a former girlfriend, and extended family, taps into the energies of Lagos life—creative, malevolent, ambiguous—and slowly begins to reconcile the profound changes that have taken place in his country and the truth about himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn spare, precise prose that sees humanity everywhere, interwoven with original photos by the author, \u003cem\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief\u003c\/em\u003e—originally published in Nigeria in 2007—is a wholly original work of fiction. This revised and updated edition is the first version of this unique book to be made available outside Africa. You’ve never read a book like \u003cem\u003eEvery Day Is for the Thief\u003c\/em\u003e because no one writes like Teju Cole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kgosi Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52276435910961,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/1016\/5041\/files\/Everyday_is_for_the_thief_-_169.jpg?v=1769639189","url":"https:\/\/www.kgosibookshelf.com\/products\/everyday-is-for-the-thief-teju-cole","provider":"Kgosi Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}