{"product_id":"the-great-fire-by-shirley-hazzard-9781844080571","title":"The Great Fire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/em\u003e is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since \u003cem\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 fulfil their destinies, others will falter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the centre 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599450816748,"sku":"9781844080571","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781844080571-the-great-fire.jpg?v=1777979554","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-great-fire-by-shirley-hazzard-9781844080571","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}