![]() Shirley Hazzard, the quiet, playful, lovestruck artist of love, goodness and death in the 20th century. If the last sentence doesn't make you gasp and weep, you are not fully conscious. THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being unable to read the last three pages. ![]() For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love. Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9781844080571 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 220 g Dimensions: 195 x 127 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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. His counterpart, a young girl living in Occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. At the centre of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. ![]() Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. 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. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. ![]()
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