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The Great Fire (National Book Award Winner)

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

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 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...

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