# City of Fiction

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- Book: [City of Fiction](https://www.bookquiver.com/todd-foley/city-of-fiction) ([City of Fiction.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/todd-foley/city-of-fiction.md))
- Authors: [Todd Foley](https://www.bookquiver.com/todd-foley)
- Publisher: Europa Editions
- ISBN: 978-17-8770-565-4
- Pages: 427
- Published: 2025-04-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" Engrossing.... a terrifically entertaining novel."--Irish TimesIn the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and cultural shift, with a thousand-year-old empire crumbling and the nation on the brink of modernity. Against this backdrop, a quiet man from the North embarks on a perilous journey to a Southern city in the grip of a savage snowstorm. He carries with him a newborn baby: he is looking for the child's mother and a city that isn't there. This is a story of two people: a man who finds unexpected success after having journeyed to the hometown of the woman who abandoned him; and the woman he is searching for, who mysteriously disappeared to embark on her own eventful journey. This is a story about vanished crafts and ancient customs, about violence, love, and friendship. Above all, it's a story about change and about storytelling itself, full of vivid characters and surprising twists-an epic tale, as inexorable as time itself and as gripping as a classic adventure story.