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Open City

A Novel
by Teju Cole
Open City: A Novel. Random. Feb. 2011. 272p. ISBN 9781400068098. $25. F
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Cole's first novel, after the novella Every Day Is for the Thief, is getting a 25,000-copy first printing. Julius, the doctor protagonist, is a Nigerian immigrant in New York encountering people whose lives tell of earlier immigrant experiences.
Reviewed by Margaret Heilbrun , Nov 01, 2010
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