{"title":"Shirley Hazzard","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"the-great-fire-paperback","title":"The Great Fire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire \u003c\/i\u003eis the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore than twenty years after the classic\u003ci\u003e The Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett \"is brilliant and dazzling...\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love in the aftermath of war by \"purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today.\" (Michael Cunningham)","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104046485727,"sku":"9780312423582","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/S2zvLv6D0O9780312423582.webp?v=1781099928"},{"product_id":"the-bay-of-noon-paperback","title":"The Bay of Noon - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda's lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104218190047,"sku":"9780312422875","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KGPEiTts8l9780312422875.webp?v=1781104433"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/shirley-hazzard.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}