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Edward King has crafted a compelling, multi-layered novel in Night of the Tiny Suns. Inspired by the author’s experience of serving in Afghanistan, it’s an intimate and intense account of war as lived by three fighting men who share comparable sufferings and conflicts beyond their apparent differences.
“So this is how it is to be a man” — an arresting opening line that sets the stage for the three characters whose richly evoked stories we become entwined in. While farmer and former Mujahideen warrior Ghul is determined to see peace in his village, Haji Mansur is fighting for the kind of ideals that spawned the Taliban, with a British Captain in opposition.
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.
Joanne Owen
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Night of Tiny Suns Synopsis
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 affect their followers, friends, family and lovers.
An intimate account of the shared experience of war: fear, courage, boredom, exhaustion, the ugliness of death, the brutal sped of events. And always woven into the chaos of the moment, the unexpected, extremes of pain, there’s the human factor, an unaccountable force, driving people together, splitting them apart, creating memories and suffering that can’t be healed.
For readers of The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; From the City, from the Plough, by Alexander Baron; Rain, by Barney Campbell.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781911427421 |
| Publication date: |
24th October 2024 |
| Author: |
Edward King |
| Publisher: |
Everything with Words |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
304 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Action Adventure
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Edward King Press Reviews
'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 Lloyd, Times Award Winning Special Correspondent
