Every Day is for the Thief

According to the correspondent of Iran Book News Agency (IBNA), ‘Every Day is for the Thief’ is the narrative of a Nigerian man who returns to Lagos for a short period after years of living in America. In this return, he sees the city not from the perspective of a tourist, but from the viewpoint of someone who grew up there and now feels a distance between himself and the environment.

Throughout his presence in the city, the narrator encounters various situations; from offices and crowded city streets to administrative and social behaviors that are common for many residents, describing scenes that indicate bribery, disorder, and daily pressures have become part of normal life.

In a part of the book ‘Every Day is for the Thief,’ you read: “The air is strange, the familiar space of this city is saturated with stories and draws me to think of every life as a story. Narratives fly towards me from a thousand directions. Every guest who enters the house, every stranger with whom I start a conversation, has an amazing story. Details that are infinitely captivating and alluring to me in Márquez’s writings are present in the narratives of these people, just waiting for an angel to arrive and record their stories. It’s enough to cautiously nudge them a little so they open up before me like a book…”

Aynak Publication recently released this book, translated by Ghazal Namjoo, in 161 pages and priced at 220,000 Tomans.