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His second novel, open city is the story of a nigeriangerman psychiatrist making a living in new york city five years after the twin towers were destroyed. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, teju coles open city seethes with intelligence.
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