{"product_id":"night-of-fire-9780062499769","title":"Night of Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eNight of Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight of Fire\u003c\/em\u003e is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Thubron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062499769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThubron, Colin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColin Thubron\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eAmong the Russians\u003c\/em\u003e. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: \u003cem\u003eBehind the Wall: A Journey through China\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Heart of Asia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn Siberia\u003c\/em\u003e (Prix Bouvier), \u003cem\u003eShadow of the Silk Road\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTo a Mountain in Tibet.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43505410801779,"sku":"9.78006E+12","price":22.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f4f1a3a3-e9e4-476b-8eeb-b784d073a5e5.jpg?v=1755261086","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/night-of-fire-9780062499769","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}