{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"City of Fiction","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/city-of-fiction","description":"A story of love, blood and dreams, set in early 20th century China In 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\u0026#39;s mother and a city that isn\u0026#39;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\u0026#39;s a story about change and about storytelling itself, full of vivid characters, ranging from bandits to vengeful potentates, from prostitutes to deceitful soothsayers, and surprising twists--an epic tale, as inexorable as time itself and as gripping as a classic adventure story.","author_name":"Yu Hua","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/yu-hua","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/32098355/09611a4a4f44ad497b7a960ae2ae18ab6b71eac1.jpeg","thumbnail_width":333,"thumbnail_height":500}