"Sparked by the author’s service in Afghanistan, this involving novel exposes the beating heart of war with humanity, and in evocative style."
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.
| Primary Genre | Action Adventure |
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