The great fire

By Shirley Hazzard

Subjects: Japan, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, England, fiction, Japanese Psychological fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, World War, 1939-1945, England -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence -- Fiction, Japan -- Fiction, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Fiction, Social aspects, Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Social aspects of World War, 1939-1945, Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Fiction, Hong kong (china), fiction, Reconstruction (1939-1951), Influence

Description: In 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 fulfill their destinies, others will falter.