DAVID ROTENBERG is a professor emeritus of theatre studies at York University, where he taught graduate students for over 25 years. He has released 12 novels which have been published by Penguin, Simon and Schuster, McArthur and Company, St. Martin’s Press, and ECW. His novels have been optioned in the past for major motion picture adaptation. City Rising is presently in negotiation with London producers. He is the founder and artistic director of the world-renowned actor training institute Pro Actors Lab. His four-book epic historical fiction series, entitled City Rising the ‘Shanghai Tetralogy,’ is based on true events and explores the legend of two Iraqi-Jews, and the renowned port city across several centuries.
September 23rd, 2025
Book 4 and the final climatic end in the acclaimed City Rising ‘Shanghai Tetralogy’.
February 27th, 2025
The second book in the ‘Shanghai Tetralogy’ is City Rising: The Bend in the River:On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his three trusted followers: the Bodyguard, his favourite Courtesan, and his Head Confucian.
November 9th, 2023
The first book in the ‘Shanghai Tetralogy,’ City Rising, starts on the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ where the FIRST EMPEROR the most powerful man the world to that time had ever known bequeaths a talisman to his three trusted followers: the BodyGuard, his favorite Courtesan and his Head Confucian - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth for the next 2500 years of a city at the Bend in the River - Shanghai.
