{"product_id":"teju-cole-pharmakon","title":"Teju Cole: Pharmakon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*limited quantity signed by Teju Cole\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together a sequence of subtle and disquieting photographs with a dozen compact short stories, \u003cem\u003ePharmakon\u003c\/em\u003e is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole. The photographs were taken across the globe and extend the oblique point of view he developed in \u003cem\u003eFernweh\u003c\/em\u003e (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 Cole’s novels \u003cem\u003eOpen City\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) and \u003cem\u003eTremor\u003c\/em\u003e (2023). The result is a work of strange beauty that startles and consoles in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555637989433,"sku":"210000002806","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/annotation-2024-03-07-124334.jpg?v=1790279577","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/teju-cole-pharmakon","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}