Great Fire (Paperback, 1st Picador ed)

More than twenty years after the classic" The Transit of Venus," Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."
"The Great Fire" is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of 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 center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.
In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity. "The Great Fire" is a story of love in the aftermath of war by "purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today." (Michael Cunningham)

General

Imprint:	St Martin's Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2004
First published:	July 2004
Authors:	Shirley Hazzard
Dimensions:	208 x 139 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	326
Edition:	1st Picador ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-42358-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Romance > General
LSN:	0-312-42358-6
Barcode:	9780312423582

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