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The great fire [sound recording] / Shirley Hazzard.
Record details
- ISBN: 1402581270
- Physical Description: 10 sound discs (11.25 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2004, c2003.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Unabridged Fiction"--Container. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Virginia Leishman. |
Summary, etc.: | 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 find 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. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Winner, Fiction, 2003. |
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Influence > Fiction. Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Fiction. Hong Kong (China) > Fiction. England > Fiction. Japan > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Historical fiction. |