
The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction.


The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction.

The year is 1947. The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. In its wake, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. Son of a famed and sexually ruthless novelist,...

A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her...




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...





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