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Availability:In StockContributor:Colin ThubronPublish date:2023-06-28Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollins PublishersISBN-13:9780062499769ISBN-10:62499769UPC:9780062499769Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Visionary & Metaphysical, Science FictionSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC3MCN1H97

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.

A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate.

In Night of Fire, the passions and obsessions in a dying house loom and shift, from those of the hallucinating drug addict in the basement to the landlord training his rooftop telescope on the night skies. As the novel progresses, the tenants' diverse stories take us through an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation grounds of India. Haunting the edges of their lives are memories. Will these remembrances be consumed forever by the flames? Or can they survive in some form?

Night of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself.

Language:EnglishPublisher:HarperCollins PublishersISBN-13:9780062499769ISBN-10:62499769UPC:9780062499769Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Visionary & Metaphysical, Science FictionSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC3MCN1H97
Thubron, Colin: - "

Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled by car into the Soviet Union, a journey he described in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet.


Among other honors, Colin Thubron has received the Ness award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. In 2007 he was made CBE. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017, and named an RSL Companion of Literature in 2020.

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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