by Teju Cole · Faber And Faber Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571331390
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«Known and Strange Things» is Teju Cole's collection of essays, published by Faber And Faber in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The collection brings together essays on politics, photography, travel, history and literature. Cole examines the work of authors such as Virginia Woolf, the rise of Instagram and the value of its images, an experience of temporary blindness in New York, and Obama's transition from candidate to president, mired in a 'perpetual war'.
The 'Main' edition from Faber And Faber went on sale on August 4, 2016.
Aimed at non-fiction readers interested in literary essays, photography, travel, politics and cultural criticism.
Teju Cole is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); a novel, Open City (2011); an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016); a photobook, Punto d'Ombra (2016); and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."
