Night of fire
By: Colin Thubron
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780701183813; 9781473524958
Subjects: English fiction; Landlord and tenant; Fiction
Description: A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious childhood. Their landlord's relationship to 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.
Notes: Fiction.