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Cover of The Great Fire

The Great Fire

by Shirley Hazzard

2003 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 3 places · 2 primary
Sense of Place
4/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

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.

Set in

  • ★
    Kure · Japan
    Post-WWII occupied Japan; the story opens with Aldred arriving at Kure
    ★ primary
  • ★
    Ita Jima Island · Japan
    Post-WWII occupied Japan setting
    ★ primary
  • Hong Kong · Hong Kong
    One of several settings the novel moves between after post-war Japan

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