Burning is a breathless journey – full of excesses and bizarre encounters – across borders and to the edge of abysses, and always back to the summers of youth in Tel Aviv, to Tyler, and to a night that changed everything.
Twelve years after fate tore them apart, the narrator feels compelled to write to his friend Tyler – about the life that has passed since they last saw each other. About filming in the Russian snow just before the war, a Sicilian hunting party and a fearless dachshund, a film studio in flames near Auschwitz, and the existential struggle against a powerful British woman. A tale of overconfidence, despair, and burning passion.
In language that is at once stirring and comforting, Daniel Donskoy writes about new beginnings, intoxication, and the longing to belong. You laugh out loud – and the next moment, it hits you right in the heart.
