The Great Fire is a novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and a Miles Franklin literary award. The novel was Hazzard's first since The Transit
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The Great Fire (Hazzard novel)
…of Leith's who is investigating Japanese war crimes, and Helen Driscoll, an Australian teenager with whom Leith falls in love while billeted in Japan. The New Yorker wrote of the novel: Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating. Hierarchies of feeling, perception, and taste abound in her writing, and this novel—her…
Cover of the issue from May 30, 1925, illustrated by Ilonka Karasz, a regular cover artist for The New Yorker