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'Shirley Hazzard. For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love . . . THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being unable to read the last three pages. If the last sentence doesn't make you gasp and weep, you are not fully conscious . . . Shirley Hazzard, the quiet, playful, lovestruck artist of love, goodness and death in the 20th century. ' Bryan Appleyard 'I wish there were a set of words like 'brilliant' and 'dazzling' that we saved for only the rarest occasions, so that when I tell you THE GREAT FIRE is brilliant and dazzling you would know it is the absolute truth. This is a book that is worth a twenty-year wait.' --Ann Patchett, author of BEL CANTO 'Shirley Hazzard has written an hypnotic novel that unfolds like a dream: Japan, Southeast Asia, the end of one war and the beginning of another, the colonial order gone, and at the center of it all, a love story.' - Joan Didion 'Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today. Which makes me more than grateful to have this long-hoped for new novel.' Michael Cunningham 'The Great Fire is a brilliant, brave and sublimely written novel that allows the literate reader 'the consolation of having touched infinity'. This wonderful book, which must be read at least twice simply to savour Hazzard's sentences and set-pieces, is among the most transcendent works I've ever had the pleasure of reading.' - Anita Shreve 'a quiet and exquisitely crafted novel...the most interesting work of fiction published this year' - The Economist 'this is a book with a mature, complex voice' - Helen Rumbelow, The Times 'wonderful stuff' - Sunday Express 'a fascinating read, showing us a past that is unbearably alive, almost immanent' - Rachel Cusk, Telegraph 'unusually and convincingly layered, textured and atmospheric' - Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times 'Shirley Hazzard...is a great and original talent' - Margaret Walters, Times Literary Supplement 'a love story that surprises by its intensity' - Anita Brookner, Spectator 'a very fine novel indeed' - Alan Wall, The Guardian
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'A brilliant, brave and sublimely written novel … among the most transcendent works I've ever had the pleasure of reading'
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