![]() ![]() There he meets the precocious, intelligent Australian siblings-Helen and Benedict Driscoll-who have been “delivered by literature” from a different kind of war, one within their family. As one reviewer wrote: “ The Great Fire feels as if it comes to us from another time, really, other times-because Hazzard combines emotion on a scale we associate with 19th century novels, with language that has the freedom and lucid precision of early 20th century modernism.” Explicitly anachronistic, the novel follows a hero of the war who arrives in Japan to record the effects of Hiroshima. Like that earlier masterpiece, The Great Fire feels like a novel out of time-not because it once again touches on Hiroshima and the devastations of WWII, or because it is set in occupied Japan and thus seems removed from our present historical moment (it doesn’t). Twenty-three years after the publication of The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire was published to acclaim, winning the National Book Award in 2003. ![]() To join the waitlist, please email Erich Slimak at. ![]() ![]() This reading group has reached its capacity. ![]()
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