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

 · 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 Author: Helon Habila.  · In Teju Cole’s “Every Day Is for the Thief,” a Nigerian studying in New York returns home for a visit and sees everything bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole is the story of a Nigerian who has emigrated to the United States (New York City, to be specific)to become a doctor. He returns to visit family and friends and is faced with a country he both is deeply attached to and repelled by/5.

Teju Cole's memoir-like novella, Every Day Is for the Thief, takes its name from a Nigerian proverb, "Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner."This optimism regarding the future of Cole's war-torn home country pulsates steadily, if quietly, through a story that could have been mired in tragedy. In Teju Cole's "Every Day Is for the Thief," a Nigerian studying in New York returns home for a visit and sees everything differently. Teju Cole was born in the United States in and raised in Nigeria. He is the author of Every Day Is for the Thief and Open City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Mr. Cole’s novel has a mischievous title, taken from a Yoruba proverb: “Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.”. 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. ― Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief. 0 likes. Like “Had John Updike been African, he would have won the Nobel Prize twenty years ago. I feel sure that his.