

The Great Fire
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/21/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Narrator: Virginia Leishman
Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/21/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
First thing to say is what a stunningly beautifully written book this is. And it's also a poignantly romantic book. The backdrop is the devastation caused by WW2. It begins in Japan in 1947 where Aldred Leith is about to visit Hiroshima. I forget exactly what his job was but he's still in the army a......more
The only great thing about "The Great Fire" is its name. This is one of those books that as you read it, you find yourself lost in thoughts about the morning commute, the long ago expired and still unpaid decal on your front windshield, about the dog, that you forgot to feed and you now know it repa......more
Beautiful inspired descriptive prose ultimately betrayed for me by the failure of the writer to fully imagine the character of Helen who throughout the novel came across as the wish fulfillment of an elderly woman rather than any kind of authentic seventeen year old girl and as such seeped way too m......more