· Hazzard painstakingly constructs a compact panorama of a world ravaged by war, in her expert fourth novel—and first since the NBCC Award winner, The Transit of Venus (). The story opens in when Major Aldred Leith, a year-old combat veteran and prison camp survivor, travels to a military compound on an island in Japan’s Inland Sea, preparatory to a “tour” of Hiroshima, one of . The Great Fire is the 5th novel by Australian author, Shirley Hazzard. Set firstly in immediate post-war Japan and Hong Kong, then in England and New Zealand, this is the story of Aldred Leith, author, researching a book on China and Japan and Peter Read More. Book Overview. 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 Cited by: 3.
Shirley Hazzard. Average rating · 9, ratings · 1, reviews · shelved 32, times. Showing 22 distinct works. sort by. popularity original publication year title average rating number of pages. The Great Fire. by. Shirley Hazzard. avg rating — 4, ratings — published — 34 editions. The Great Fire is concerned not with the difficulties of war, but with the difficulties of www.doorway.ruy Hazzard explores the effects of war on both the victors and the vanquished and the. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Virago £, pp It seems perverse for a novel to have as few flaws as Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire. Surely an outright masterpiece is only a few waves.
Hazzard painstakingly constructs a compact panorama of a world ravaged by war, in her expert fourth novel—and first since the NBCC Award winner, The Transit of Venus (). The story opens in when Major Aldred Leith, a year-old combat veteran and prison camp survivor, travels to a military compound on an island in Japan’s Inland Sea, preparatory to a “tour” of Hiroshima, one of several sites he’s compelled to write about, and understand. 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. The Great Fire. by Shirley Hazzard. Virago £, pp It seems perverse for a novel to have as few flaws as Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire. Surely an outright masterpiece is only a few.
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