Shirley Hazzard's books include "The Evening of the Holiday," "The Bay of Noon," and "The Transit of Venus" (winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction). She lives in New York City, always maintaining her ties with Italy.
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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 a... SEE MORE