num_pages: 320
description: This is Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again.
language: English
title: The Great Fire
titlecomplete: The Great Fire
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Australia, Japan, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 5116
places: Australia, Japan
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: William Dean Howells Medal, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Virago Press Ltd