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Title Statement | City in flames / Tomas Hachard. |
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Author | Hachard, Tomas |
Publication | Toronto, ON: Flying Books,2023. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 250 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781989919071 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06943455 |
Summary | At once evocative and propulsive, City in Flames is a love story about two isolated people with a deep yet fragile bond trying to find their way to each other while political disorder engulfs the world around them. Sara is a graduate student living away from home and struggling to finish her degree. When she kindles a long-distance relationship with Kevin, a disillusioned and apathetic IT worker, the two watch as the city that Kevin lives in, and Sara grew up in, slowly rises up against P., a recently elected populist leader. As protests escalate to a night of devastating fires, the impending political breakdown pushes Sara and Kevin's relationship to the brink and leaves them torn between the turmoil of the present and a hope for the future, between their longing for connection and their terror of commitment. City in Flames offers a timely, intimate examination of our political moment, mixing the edge of Exit West and the modern romance of Normal People. It is a story that illuminates how people can grow separated from each other, the ways that these bonds can be healed and re-established, and how humans define themselves through their relationships with others. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Government, Resistance to--Fiction |
Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
Long-distance relationships--Fiction | |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Women graduate students--Fiction | |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |
Dystopian fiction | |
Novels |