A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict
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… (more)
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 01, 2007)
Collection: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Awards: Miles Franklin Award 2004 winner, National Book Award for Fiction 2003 winner