Night of fire : a novel /

"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. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon;...

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Main Author: Thubron, Colin, 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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