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Available to preorder - this title is due to release in late January.
Background information
"‘I am writing this note while you’re still asleep. It’s still early enough that I can open the windows in my room. By the time you read this, I’ll be at work. Please pardon the strange formality of writing to you when I could just have said to you in person what I want to say. But since I have failed to say it, it is reasonable to conclude that I am having some difficulty speaking."
Content
Bringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, the photo volume 'Pharmakon' by Teju COLE is a surprising new work from his singular mind. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in 'Fernweh' (2020). Interspersed among the images are texts that emerge like intimate signals from our age of crisis, mining further the exquisite linguistic control that characterizes his novels 'Open City' (2011) and 'Tremor' (2023). The result is a work of strange beauty that startles and consoles in equal measure." (© Mack books, 2024)