Description: Images on listing, are of this book. PAPERBACK ______________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)
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Book Title: The Great Fire Paperback 2004 by Shirley Hazzard NEW
Book Series: The Great Fire Paperback 2004 by Shirley Hazzard NEW
Item Length: 8.2in
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.9in
Personalized: No
Features: Abridged
Topic: Psychological, Romance / Historical / 20th Century, General
Item Width: 5.5in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Picador
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: Collector's Edition
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Modernism
Era: 1990s
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime & Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
