Tremor av Teju Cole

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<p><i>Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.</i><br><br>Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One man¿s personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.<br><br>A weekend spent shopping for antiques 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 speak out from a pulsing metropolis.<br><br><i>Tremor</i> is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It i