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Title: Night of Fire
Author: Colin Thubron
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble, Antonia Beamish
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-17
Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd
Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
"It began with a spark."
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.
Members Reviews:
Rich and deep
Loved it! Rich and deep in theme and character development. The writing is often beautiful. The author's long life as a world traveler enhance and inform each story within the story. I enjoyed and admired the novel's complex conceptual structure: short, subtly inter-related narratives about the lives and characters of each person who lives in a burning rooming house as it burns and as they die.
The novel starts and ends with short narratives from the home-owner's point of view; in between are narratives of the other 5 or so tenants. The names and traits of some of the characters are repeated and, it seems, related -- perhaps each character is a different aspect of the same person? One gets a feeling that this is a deeply personal book for the author. Thubron's depiction of the characteristics of memory are layered, haunting, perceptive, and strange. I found this book immensely rewarding and haunting and am looking forward to rereading it in a few months. It is one of the best novels I've ever read.
Burning Lives
It's the structure of the book that propels the story. One after another, a floor of a boarding house burns taking with it inhabitants and treasures. While the borders may not know each other well, their lives are intertwined. The landlord on the roof is saved for last. Highly suspenseful.
A Fire To Remember
Would love to meet all the charecters again in a fantasy after the fire--specially the naturalist.
I just could not see a point in all this
I just didn't see the point of this story I guess. While some of the characters were mildly interesting and their stories relateable to the trials we all face in life, I don't think they were interesting enough to write a book about. I kept slogging through thinking, "Why do I care about any of this? " I understand the author is a travel writer. I suppose some readers were impressed with his descriptions of the landscapes and cultures, but this isn't a travel book.
Poignant thoughts into the fragility of memory, the importance of stories, and the strength of the patterns that unite us
NIGHT OF FIRE, Colin Thubronâs first novel in more than a decade, opens with the landlord of an aging apartment building standing on the roof. Heâs an amateur astronomer, awaiting the arrival of a meteor shower. Little does he know, though, as his eyes are turned to the heavens, the drama thatâs about to unfold below, as a stray spark ignites a conflagration that will rip through the small building.
From the landlord, Thubron then focuses in turn on each of the buildingâs inhabitants, allowing their diverse pasts to speak even as smoke and vapors threaten to engulf their futures. Thereâs the stubbornly rational neurosurgeon, troubled by two recent cases, who canât wait to marry his fiancée and finally start his real life.