Turning Back The Sun

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Set in a mythical authoritarian subtropical country between the two World Wars, Turning Back the Sun is the story of a 'purpose town', where 'nobody arrived for pleasure'. Its citizens are workers and pioneers, and leaving the town is forbidden. The town is surrounded by parched lands where mysterious natives practice their traditional customs. When two bodies are washed up on the river bank, the natives are blamed for the murder. A classic tale of the origins and outcomes of racial hatred and ignorance, this is vintage Thubron. Published to coincide with the author's new book, To the Last City (Chatto, July 2002).

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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

Author Bio

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