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The great fire
By Hazzard, Shirley
- ISBN
- 978-0-37416-644-1
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2003
In Hazzard's magisterial new work-her first novel since the award-winning Transit of Venus in 1980-the "great fire" (World War II) has already swept the world. In its wake we find Aldred Leith, raised in the Far East by a brilliant Orientalist father and distant mother from whom he is now estranged. Having served in the war and then literally walked across China, Leith arrives in Japan to join the British co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
