Description
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.
Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of 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 center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier find 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.
• Winner of the National Book Award
• For a quarter century, Picador has been producing beautifully packaged literary fiction and nonfiction books from our offices in New York. Our Modern Classics series pairs iconic books with a bold and elegant design.
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.
Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of 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 center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier find 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.
• Winner of the National Book Award
• For a quarter century, Picador has been producing beautifully packaged literary fiction and nonfiction books from our offices in New York. Our Modern Classics series pairs iconic books with a bold and elegant design.
Data sheet
- Article
- 100000188719
- Author Name
- S. Hazzard
- Publisher
- Picador Modern Classics
- Origin
- Imported
- Book Format
- Trade Paperback
- Weight
- 0.32kg
- Length
- 9.65cm
- Width
- 3.05cm
- Height
- 15.49cm
- Year Released
- 2019
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781250060655
- Number of Pages
- 528
- Translator
- English
