The bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W G Sebald A haunting novel about national identity race liberty loss & surrender Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship from lives past & present on either side of the Atlantic Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York
- as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul