"Burning City" by Garth Riske Hallberg Publisher: Shanghai Culture Publishing House

Introduction · · · · · ·
★This city is so big and colorful, but you can't find anything you want

Dedicated to a city full of loneliness, despair, hope and dreams

★Sweeping the mainstream media in Europe and America, selected into many heavyweight lists

The New York Times' Best Books of the Year | The Washington Post's Best Books of the Year | Amazon's Best Literary Fiction Recommendations

★It took 7 years to complete and was praised as a masterpiece of genius that only appears once in 20 years. The bid of 2 million US dollars shocked the European and American literary circles. The copyrights were sold to more than 20 countries and 74 versions around the world, setting many authorization records.

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Contents:

"Bang!" Fireworks exploded. "Bang!" A gunshot rang out. The year 1977 in New York began with a shooting.

The first person to discover the victim was a black man named Mercer, who came to New York with the dream of becoming a writer and met his true love here. Mercer thought 1977 would be his year, but he didn't expect to spend his first day in the police station.

William, who lives in a cheap rental house with Mercer, hides his identity as the heir of a wealthy family, makes a living by painting, hangs out in punk bars, and lives a decadent life. William's sister Reagan, once the apple of her father's eye, is now trapped in the dilemma of losing control of the family business, her husband's financial deficit, and betrayal of the family. And Samantha, the young lover of her husband Keith, is the girl who fell in a pool of blood on New Year's Eve.

The upper class, marginalized people, police, journalists, punks, artists, and motorcycle gangs all have different identities, but their fates are intertwined because of this case. Whether they are willing or not, they are all involved in the same story. In the love-hate city of New York, they desperately want to exist in their own way.

About the Author
Garth Risk Hallberg

American writer and critic. Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington, Master of Arts from New York University. Published the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family, and his short stories and critical essays have been published in the New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian and other media.

Garth Riske Hallberg spent seven years to complete Burning City. This nearly 1,000-page debut novel shocked the European and American literary circles with a bid of two million US dollars, becoming a well-deserved topic book in 2015.