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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.

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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.

A Remarkable Novel

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Colin Thubron has a unique, intense, vague yet beautiful way of using words and coloring the world he inhabits. His way of conveying emotions, confusion, sadness, and the depth of the human soul is absolutely wonderful. Many of his books are of his long travels, about the people he meet, places he visit, their feelings, looks, and history, and this book encompasses a shower of people, lost at once. Very different people, but all seem real in some ways, and naturally one can connect with parts of them in their own life, and the emotions they have.
All of Colins extended works that I have read so far has been a journey of wonders, and this is another to add to the list, even if it’s the first fictional one.

A unique writing style.

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