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Night of Fire

By: Colin Thubron
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Antonia Beamish
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"It began with a spark."

A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood. Their landlord's relationship with them 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 of these unquiet lives reach beyond the dying house that holds them. Ranging from an African refugee camp to the cremation-grounds of India, their memories mutate and criss-cross in a novel of lingering beauty and mystery.

©2016 Colin Thubron (P)2017 Isis Publishing Ltd
Literary Fiction
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A Remarkable Novel

Colin Thubron is one of the finest writer’s in the English language. He learned his craft clocking up thousands of miles through beautiful, forlorn, threatening and soul-stretching landscapes. In this novel his finely drawn personal narratives touch every aspect of the Self - inside and out. Human beings, like mayflies or butterflies, are mere ephemera.

‘Night of the Fire’ is a literary masterpiece - a journey which winds inevitably, intriguingly, towards immolation. Thubron weaves a huge tapestry of interlocking lives each defined by loss and nostalgia and suffering. Ultimately we are what we remember- and who remembers us. We all hang on thin threads, trying to make sense of our individual destinies.
But when the road ends, we find ourselves in precisely the same smoke-filled room.

Thubron’s refined self-awareness and command of elegant, painterly prose make him one of the finest story tellers of all time.

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