The Great Fire
Author: Shirley Hazzard
The sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict by ‘one of the greatest writers working in English today’ (Michael Cunningham) and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction…..Read More
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