{"product_id":"passage-6th-aug","title":"Passage (6th Aug)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story of a long-simmering love triangle set in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, from the Booker-longlisted novelist and travel writer. ‘She was standing at the boat’s prow. He thought: this is how I will remember her, looking into the wind, serene.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis will outlast whatever is to come.’Kathleen lies awake in the operating theatre as she undergoes brain surgery, her husband Robert watching. Soon afterwards, the couple leave for an ill-advised holiday in Egypt, together with the third person in their marriage, Robert’s brother Alan. Each of them is aware that the tumour in Kathleen’s brain may be fatal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Kathleen, an actor, the trauma of her operation brings a haunting sense of the frailty of her identity. Her descent along the ancient Egyptian tomb corridors – symbols of the passage beyond death – evokes a fevered elation. Ashraf, their Egyptian guide, is compulsively drawn to her, even as he is caught up in the conflicted politics of his country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs each character struggles with the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the future, the mounting tension resolves in delusion – and a shattering betrayal. In taut, shimmering prose, Colin Thubron shifts among the perspectives of the four protagonists in a narrative of mesmerising scope and power. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise for Colin Thubron:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘No writer has more successfully combined the disciplines of travel writing and fiction than Colin Thubron … A master craftsman’ The Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘One of our greatest prose writers in any genre’ William Dalyrymple\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘[An] irresistible narrative gift’ Ursula Le Guin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This short, breathtakingly hypnotic novel held me in its grip until the very last word' Miranda Seymour\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book House (Thame)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55899660583297,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/7873\/5421\/files\/9781784746766.jpg?v=1783683899","url":"https:\/\/shop.thebookhousethame.co.uk\/products\/passage-6th-aug","provider":"The Book House Thame","version":"1.0","type":"link"}