After an armored car robbery goes horribly wrong and leaves four people dead, young ex-con Brendan Lavin flees New York City and attempts to start over again in Shanghai. But twelve years later, after opening a bakery under an assumed name and starting a family with a local woman, his former colleagues show up and force Brendan to assist in another armed robbery, of a wealthy diamond merchant. If he doesn’t cooperate, they’ll expose him and kill his family. Will Brendan help them pull it off and keep his new life intact? Or will his past bring him down, destroying everything else along with it? Tomorrow City is a riveting, literary crime novel that explores the theme of reinvention in Shanghai, the city that’s reinvented itself more than any other in the world over the past generation.

Author

Kirk Kjeldsen

Kirk Kjeldsen received an MFA from the University of Southern California and is currently an assistant professor in the cinema program at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts. He has also taught at Fudan University in Shanghai, the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb), and the Polish National Film School in Łódź. His novel Tomorrow City was named one of the ten best books of 2013 by the New Jersey Star-Ledger; he also wrote and produced the feature film Gavagai. He lives in Germany with his wife and children.

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Series: Brendan Lavin

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2013
Review TOMORROW CITY - Kirk Kjeldsen
Karen Chisholm
Monday, December 9, 2013
Blog CR - Tomorrow City, Kirk Kjeldsen
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, November 21, 2013
ISBN
9789881554215
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1
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Review TOMORROW CITY - Kirk Kjeldsen
Karen Chisholm
Monday, December 9, 2013
Blog CR - Tomorrow City, Kirk Kjeldsen
Karen Chisholm
Thursday, November 21, 2013

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