Turning Back The Sun

Colin Thubron

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English

Vintage
15 August 2002

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'Colin Thubron's voice is unique- once heard, difficult to forget' Anita Brookner

Far away from the city of his birth, in a frontier town on the edge of tribal wilderness, a doctor tries to resolve the seemingly unreconcilable demands of his public career and his personal feelings. He believes his exile her to be temporary, and youthful memories of the distant city torment him with an unbearable sense of loss. Yet he has grown to love a fellow exile, a woman of fierce independence and strong will, who belongs by nature to the warmth and chaos of the frontier? But, during a summer of drought and disease, the desert erupts into savagery and he is at last confronted by the choice of returning to the city or of remaining with her.

By: Colin Thubron
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 150g
ISBN: 9780099287681
ISBN 10: 0099287684
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 August 2002
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Thubron was born in 1939, and worked in publishing before travelling in North Africa, the Middle East, Russia and China.