Night of Tiny Suns
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Everything with Words
Published:24th Oct '24
Should be back in stock very soon
For readers of The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; Rain, by Barney Campbell; Matterhorn by Karl Marlentes.
A brutally honest and well informed page-turner ( the action moves swiftly) which will receive strong endorsements.
Captain Nick Russell commands a small group of soldiers. Gul Khan, once a Mujahideen warrior wants peace and revenge. Haji Mansur battles for ideals that gave birth to the Taliban. Their fates collide and they are faced with impossible choices.
A STORY OF WAR TOLD FROM THE INSIDE
DEFT, POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING-ANTHONY LOYD , TIMES AWARD WINNING SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
THEY'RE IN AFGHANISTAN TOGETHER. MEN AND WOMEN FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, ALL WITH RELATIONSHIPS LEFT BEHIND AND NEW ONES FORGED IN THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR. THE EVENTS OF A FEW DAYS CHANGE EVERYONE IN WAYS NO ONE COULD HAVE ANTICIPATED AS EVERYTHING SPIRALS OUT OF CONTROL.
Captain Nick Russell is drawn to Afghanistan by his profession. Ghul Khan, once a Mujahideen warrior, is now a farmer desperate to find peace for his village. Haji Mansur battles for the ideals that gave birth to the Taliban. All three are experienced fighters with strong feelings of loyalty and honour. Their fates collide amid the brutality of war, and they are faced with impossible choices.
'That most precious of war stories: a veteran soldier's tale from the dust and blood and brilliant greens of Helmand. Deft, powerful and deeply moving, as much as an account of men at war, Edward King carries his reader along a bloody road to manhood - marked by milestones of searing grief, complex choices and terrible violence - which British soldier and Taliban fighter alike both trod as they struggled to outwit one another in Helmand's sands.' ANTHONY LOYD TIMES AWARD-WINNING SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Raw and lyrical, and often also moving and thought-provoking, Night of the Tiny Suns goes beyond the boundaries of frontline fiction to cut to the core of the nature of war, and those it affects in irrevocably bone-deep ways.
LOVEREADING
'The realities of war and the toll on those who fight, on both sides. We're with soldiers making dry mouthed decisions, who can still look beyond the battlefield to write a love letter to Afghanistan. Brave, remarkable and compelling' SARAH SANDS, FORMER EDITOR OF TODAY BBC RADIO 4
ISBN: 9781911427421
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
Weight: unknown
304 pages