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  • Published: 15 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099287681
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $30.00

Turning Back The Sun



'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.

  • Published: 15 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099287681
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $30.00

About the author

Colin Thubron

COLIN THUBRON is a celebrated travel writer, winner of many prizes and awards. His classic travel books include: Among the Russians (1983), Behind the Wall (1987), In Siberia (1999), Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) and The Amur River (2021). He is also the author of eight acclaimed works of fiction, including A Cruel Madness (1984), winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, To the Last City, long-listed for the Booker Prize (2002), and Night of Fire (2017). Passage is his ninth novel, shaped by a journey to Egypt.

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Praise for Turning Back The Sun

This transcendentally gifted writer is of course one of the two or three best living travel writers - in some ways probably the best

Jan Morris