books
Open City (a novel) is the story of a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City five years after 9/11. It was published by Random House in the US, and Faber & Faber in the UK, and was named a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Translations in progress: German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, and Italian.
My earlier book was Every Day is for the Thief, a novella with photographs. It was published by Cassava Republic Press in 2007 and is at the moment only available in Nigeria. It will be published in the US someday. In the meantime, here’s a nice review, and here is an excerpt published in the African Cities Reader.
I’m at work on my third book, a non-fictional narrative of contemporary Lagos.