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The great fire / Shirley Hazzard.

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Record Number 739287
ISBN 9781844080571 (paperback)
Author Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016 author.
Title The great fire / Shirley Hazzard.
Publisher/Date London : Virago, 2004.
©2003.
Pagination etc. 314 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents note Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2004.
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliography.
Summary Note 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.
Subject Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence -- Fiction
Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction
England -- Fiction
Japan -- Fiction
War fiction.
Shelf Location F HAZZ
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