Title : The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard - book

Summary :

1947: Peace has a strange taste. England is in ruins, China awaits Mao's victory, Japan is haunted by its war crimes and by Hiroshima. Between these three countries navigates Aldred Leith, sinologist, son of a famous novelist, hero wounded in combat. Like all his contemporaries, he oscillates between euphoria and disillusionment, thirst for life and fear of the void. And he asks himself a nagging question: what meaning can he give to this existence he almost lost? How can he justify having survived? And then, in the world of ambitions and intrigues of the occupying troops, he believes he has rediscovered a lost innocence, embodied by two cultured and fervent adolescents: a young man doomed to an imminent death and his sister, straight out of a fairy tale. Can this be enough to rebuild a world? Perhaps never before has the post-war climate been evoked with such precision, such carnal intensity. But Shirley Hazzard excels just as much at carving out the intimate against a backdrop of collective turmoil, giving these destinies a timeless and universal scope. With this unforgettable work combining poetic richness and accuracy of tone, subtle classical perfection and flashes of style, she establishes herself more than ever as a major novelist of our time, one we urgently need to discover.

• EAN : 9782070344536
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