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Book Review of The Great Fire

The Great Fire
The Great Fire
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


This book has won many awards, including the National Book Award, and Shirley Hazzard's prose can be wonderful. For me, it was a little bit of a struggle to read through the entire book. Much of the story centers on an unlikely love story in the East, immediately after WW II.