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Great Fire
by Shirley Hazzard
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Soon after the end of World War II, a disillusioned veteran and U.S. Army major named Aldred Leith travels to a Japanese island, hoping to understand the impact of the war on the place. Meanwhile, his friend Peter Exley is investigating war crimes. And two young children, the daughter and son of a general, play their part in a novel about victims of various kinds and their rescuers. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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9780312423582,
Paperback,
St Martins Pr,
2004
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9780374166441,
Hardcover,
Farrar Straus & Giroux,
2003
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Publisher Notes
In the aftermath of World War Two, young men and women living in Europe and Asia must reconstruct their lives amid the ashes of war, including a young soldier who confronts the reality that material goods and success are not enough, and a woman living in Japan who tends to her dying brother.
Media Reviews
"Hazzard painstakingly constructs a compact panorama of a world ravaged by war, in her expert fourth novel....[T]his almost indescribably rich story...moves from strength to strength, and no reader will be unmoved by its sorrowing, soaring eloquence. One of the finest novels ever written about war and its aftermath...."
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