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Sunrise

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Three lives, 100 years, one forgotten town. In 2024, Nina's small aircraft crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Lost, freezing, and alone on the shore, Nina stumbles upon Sunrise—an abandoned frontier town that is strangely well-maintained. In 2003, Sunrise's golden boy, Coll, is about... Read More
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From the author of international sensation The Tiger's Wife comes an explosive novel about a mysterious town called Sunrise where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried

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Three lives, 100 years, one forgotten town.

In 2024, Nina's small aircraft crashes into a lake in the Wyoming mountains. Lost, freezing, and alone on the shore, Nina stumbles upon Sunrise—an abandoned frontier town that is strangely well-maintained.

In 2003, Sunrise's golden boy, Coll, is about to start rehearsals for the town's annual historical reenactment when he is linked with a scandalous incident at a local bar. When an author comes to him with questions about one of Sunrise's most beloved figures, Coll is forced to reassess everything he thought he knew about the city—and himself.

In 1902, town founder, gunslinger, and adventure-novel hero, Anton Vargas, returns to Sunrise and helps the search for a missing boy. But who really is Vargas? What does he know about the boy's disappearance? And why has he returned after so many years away?

These three are strangers, separated by time. But Sunrise has secrets which lie in waiting like gunpowder: quiet, until they encounter a spark. From the bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife comes an explosive novel that challenges the myths we think we know: of heroes and villains, of the places we lay claim to, and most of all, of our own lives.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399644525

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 August 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Tea Obreht is the internationally bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife, which won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second novel, Inland, was an instant bestseller, won the Southwest Book Award and was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her most recent novel, The Morningside, was shortlisted for the inaugural Climate fiction prize. Her work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Harper's, among many other publications. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Obreht now lives in Wyoming.

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