The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since TheTransit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Awardin 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. Inwar-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young butveterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives andexpectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some willfulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the centre of thestory, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival andworldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girlliving in Occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls inlove, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadowof world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in worldaffairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance,and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.
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Shirley Hazzard (born 30 January 1931) is an Australian authorof fiction and nonfiction. She was born in Australia, but holdscitizenship in Great Britain and the United States. Her 1970 novelThe Bay of Noon was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in2010.
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