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Item Details
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THE GREAT FIRE
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| By: |
Shirley Hazzard |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844080579 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844080571 |
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Currently 3 available |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
6 May, 2004 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
The sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict by 'one of the greatest writers working in English today' (Michael Cunningham) and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. |
| Synopsis: |
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 title is 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 centre 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005
Short-listed for Orange Prize 2004
Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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Book Level : 6.3
Interest Level : Upper Yrs
Points : 15
Quiz number : 207063
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