Night of Fire by Colin Thubron
It began with a spark... A house is burning. At times he shares their obsessions and memories. He will also share their fate. The passions of these individuals reach beyond the dying house that holds them. One recalls a lonely childhood, another the cremation grounds of India, another an African refugee camp.
Thubron returns with what might be his masterpiece… Thubron’s prose shines a penetrating light on the nature of memory and being humanSublime. -- Simon Humphreys * Mail on Sunday *
Intensely moving -- Tim Martin * Sunday Telegraph *
An engrossing, unsettling and brutally beautiful masterpiece. -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
Each life story…is told with all this writer’s irresistible narrative gift -- Ursula K. Le Guin * Guardian *
Medicine owes an equal debt of gratitude to him for evoking a journey through the brain with the same adventurous and beguiled spirit as he might a rainforest or ancient city… With the ease of a master craftsman he makes up new words…lovingly evokes the extraordinary places he has passed through… This outstanding novel confirms that there is nowhere Thubron fears to tread. -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *
Intensely moving -- Tim Martin * Sunday Telegraph *
An engrossing, unsettling and brutally beautiful masterpiece. -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
Each life story…is told with all this writer’s irresistible narrative gift -- Ursula K. Le Guin * Guardian *
Medicine owes an equal debt of gratitude to him for evoking a journey through the brain with the same adventurous and beguiled spirit as he might a rainforest or ancient city… With the ease of a master craftsman he makes up new words…lovingly evokes the extraordinary places he has passed through… This outstanding novel confirms that there is nowhere Thubron fears to tread. -- Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *
COLIN THUBRON is a celebrated travel writer, winner of many prizes and awards. His classic travel books include: Among the Russians (1983), Behind the Wall (1987), In Siberia (1999), Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) and The Amur River (2021). He is also the author of eight acclaimed works of fiction, including A Cruel Madness (1984), winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, To the Last City, long-listed for the Booker Prize (2002), and Night of Fire (2017). Passage is his ninth novel, shaped by a journey to Egypt.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099532651 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099532654 |
| Title | Night of Fire |
| Author | Colin Thubron |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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