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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard - ISBN: 9781844080571
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War-torn world, rekindled love: Can humanity rise from the ashes?

The Great Fire

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    320 pages

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    1 June 2005

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Summary

THE GREAT FIRE is Shirley Hazzard’s first novel since THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the centre of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844080571
ISBN-10:1844080579
Author:Shirley Hazzard
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:1 June 2005
Weight:220g
Dimensions:195mm x 127mm x 21mm
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Shirley Hazzard. For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love … THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being unable to read the last three pages. If the last sentence doesn’t make you gasp and weep, you are not fully conscious … Shirley Hazzard, the quiet, playful, lovestruck artist of love, goodness and death in the 20th century. ‘ Bryan Appleyard - ‘I wish there were a set of words like ‘brilliant’

and ‘dazzling - that we saved for only the rarest occasions, so that when I tell you THE GREAT FIRE is brilliant and dazzling you would know it is the absolute truth.

Ann Patchett, author of BEL CANTO - ‘Shirley Hazzard has written an hypnotic novel that unfolds like a dream: Japan, Southeast Asia, the end of one war and the beginning of another, the

Joan Didion - ‘Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today. Which makes me more than grateful to have this long-hope

About The Author

Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard is the author of Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and several works of fiction, including The Evening of The Holiday, The Bay of Noon, and The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in New York City and Capri.

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