The Great Fire - Hardcover

Hazzard, Shirley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374166447 ISBN 13: 9780374166441

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003

Synopsis

In the aftermath of World War Two, young men and women living in Europe and Asia must reconstruct their lives amid the ashes of war, including a young soldier who confronts the reality that material goods and success are not enough, and a woman living in Japan who tends to her dying brother. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

Shirley Hazzard. For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love . . . THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being unable to read the last three pages. If the last sentence doesn't make you gasp and weep, you are not fully conscious . . . Shirley Hazzard, the quiet, playful, lovestruck artist of love, goodness and death in the 20th century. ' Bryan Appleyard ('I wish there were a set of words like 'brilliant')

and 'dazzling (that we saved for only the rarest occasions, so that when I tell you THE GREAT FIRE is brilliant and dazzling you would know it is the absolute truth. This is a book that is worth a twenty-year wait.')

Ann Patchett, author of BEL CANTO ('Shirley Hazzard has written an hypnotic novel that unfolds like a dream: Japan, Southeast Asia, the end of one war and the beginning of another, the colonial order gone, and at the center of it all, a love story.')

Joan Didion ('Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today. Which makes me more than grateful to have this long-hoped for new novel.')

Book Description:

A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0374166447
• ISBN 13: 9780374166441
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352