Turning Back The Sun

“A moving lament for a vanished world and for the difficulties of human communication…a rewarding read.”     (Publishers Weekly)

“Intelligent and lyrical in its evocation of life on the fringe of civilization.”  (Library Journal)

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.

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Turning Back The Sun

“A moving lament for a vanished world and for the difficulties of human communication…a rewarding read.”     (Publishers Weekly)

“Intelligent and lyrical in its evocation of life on the fringe of civilization.”  (Library Journal)

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.

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Turning Back The Sun

Turning Back The Sun

by Colin Thubron
Turning Back The Sun

Turning Back The Sun

by Colin Thubron

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“A moving lament for a vanished world and for the difficulties of human communication…a rewarding read.”     (Publishers Weekly)

“Intelligent and lyrical in its evocation of life on the fringe of civilization.”  (Library Journal)

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062104731
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 08/16/2011
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East – Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled by car into the Soviet Union, a journey he described in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of AsiaIn Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet.


Among other honors, Colin Thubron has received the Ness award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. In 2007 he was made CBE. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017, and named an RSL Companion of Literature in 2020.

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