Night of Fire is Colin Thubron’s fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself/5(35). · Night of Fire by Colin Thubron review – life is a burning house. Modern neurological theories and Buddhist meditations converge in an allegorical tale Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Night of Fire is Colin Thubron’s fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself.
Toward the close of Night of Fire, Colin Thubron's first novel in fifteen years, and surely his finest, an old Tibetan monk, having denied the existence of the self, remarks merrily that in the view of Buddhists, "life is a burning house."The same might be said, figuratively if not literally, of Thubron's novel. It is set at the New Year, in a shabby late-Victorian apartment house in a. Night of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself. Publisher: Harper OverDrive Read. ISBN: File size: KB. Award-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. Night of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth.
Janu. Everybody lives differently in Colin Thubron’s new novel, but they all burn to death in the same way. “ Night of Fire ” is a collection of stories about the tenants in an. night of fire by Colin Thubron ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 17, Flashbacks provide a glimpse of the lives of seven seemingly disconnected people who occupy an old British building in this engrossing novel by the celebrated travel writer. Colin Thubron’s “Night of Fire” is literally about a house that burns down at night, killing all its inhabitants. Lest you think I am a killjoy for giving away the plot, let me assure you.
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