Description
Shirley Hazzard’s “brilliant and dazzling” (Ann Patchett) National Book Award-winning novel of love after war.
Shirley Hazzard wrote of ravaged worlds that remained grandly romantic despite the forces of their time. The Great Fire, her final novel, which won the National Book Award, surveys the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, when veterans of devastation, still in their youth, must reinvent their lives and learn to dream again. The unlikely couple at the book’s center–a soldier and a young girl, each on the brink of self-discovery–seek to reclaim their humanity. More than twenty years since its initial publication, The Great Fire remains a shining example of the best of Hazzard: her deep worldliness; her rich evocation of love and war, idealism and reality; and the timeless beauty of her astute intelligence, wit, and observation.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Published: 07/07/2026
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374622435
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 1.11″ H x 8.11″ L x 5.41″ W
About the Author
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) is the author of Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and several works of fiction, including The Evening of the Holiday, The Bay of Noon, and The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lived in New York City and Capri.
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