Tremor by Teju Cole review – snapshot of a restless mind | Teju Cole
Reporting from the Gaza Strip in 2006, the critic and essayist John Berger powerfully summed up the prevailing sentiment among suffering Palestinians: “How is it I am still alive? I’ll tell you I’m alive because there’s a temporary shortage of death. This is said with a grin, which is on the far side of a longing for normalcy, for an ordinary life.”The Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole has written about Berger’s influence on his work, and his own novels seem touchingly attuned to the deaths that…