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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel (nominee)
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book
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.
Genre: Historical
Genre: Historical
Used availability for Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire
Hardback Editions
September 2019 : USA Hardback
July 2004 : USA Library Binding
November 2003 : UK Hardback
October 2003 : USA Hardback
October 2003 : USA Hardback
2003 : USA Hardback

Title: The Great Fire
Author(s): Shirley Hazzard
ISBN: 1-4025-7191-7 / 978-1-4025-7191-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: RB Large Print
Availability: Amazon
Paperback Editions
May 2004 : UK Paperback
July 2004 : USA Paperback
July 2004 : Paperback
May 2004 : UK Paperback
November 2003 : UK Paperback
January 2003 : UK Paperback
2003 : USA Paperback

Title: The Great Fire
Author(s): Shirley Hazzard
ISBN: 0-374-70321-3 / 978-0-374-70321-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Availability: Amazon
Audio Editions
January 2004 : USA Audio CD
January 2004 : USA Audio CD
2004 : USA Audio Cassette

Title: The Great Fire
Author(s): x
ISBN: 1-4025-8125-4 / 978-1-4025-8125-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
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2002 : UK Audio CD

Title: The Great Fire (Unabridged Books on Disc)
Author(s): Shirley Hazzard
ISBN: 1-84505-233-1 / 978-1-84505-233-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Clipper Audio
Availability: Amazon UK
Kindle Editions
December 2020 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
April 2007 : USA, Canada Kindle edition