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Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron comes back to fiction with his first book in more than a 10 years, a searing, poetic masterwork of ram. A house is burning, threatening the presence of its six tenants - including a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon, and an invalid thinking of his restless boyhood - and their landlord, whose romance to the tenants is both close and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memory. He'll also share their fate. In Nighttime of Fire, the passions and obsessions in a dying house loom and change, from those of the hallucinating medication addict in the basement to the landlord training his rooftop telescope on the night skies. As the book progresses, the tenants' diverse tales take us via an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation-grounds of India. Haunting the sides of their lives are memory. Will these remembrances be consumed permanently by the flames? Or can they endure in some form? Nighttime of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a book of delightful beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering enigma that is a brilliant yoga on life itself.
