Ebook {Epub PDF} Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole

 · Cole’s “newest’’ work, Every Day is for the Thief, was published in Nigeria in and is now translated into English for the first time. In this, his true debut, set in the country of his childhood, are the early flashes of all that Small Fates and Open City www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Seated nearby, the nameless narrator of Teju Cole’s novella Every Day Is for the Thief is anything but joyful. Fifteen years after he left Nigeria, he is preparing to return there for the first time, to visit family and friends and to rediscover this place he knew so well as a child. 38 rows · Teju Cole: Book Format: Hardcover: Original Title: Every Day is for the Thief: Number Of Author: Teju Cole.

Every Day is for the Thief (), a novel by Nigerian author Teju Cole, is told in the first-person from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who is returning to his native Lagos after spending the last fifteen years in New York City. Surprised to find that he does not feel as comfortable in his homeland as he would have expected, he struggles to readjust to the realities of Lagosian life. Teju Cole 's Every Day Is for the Thief opens as it means to go on, with a jeremiad against the corruption and sense of hopelessness in which Nigerian society wallows and which it seems incapable. I don’t need ticket!’”. Every Day Is for the Thief, a novel by Teju Cole first published in Nigeria in and recently republished by Random House, is ostensibly a travelogue: a description of Lagos by a man who is revisiting the city of his childhood some fifteen years after having emigrated to America.