num_pages: 192
description: Lonely and rootless, Jenny finds herself in war-torn Italy. There, against the fading grandeur of Naples, a larger emotional drama unfolds, and her close friendship with the beautiful and talented Gioconda expands to make room for a dour Scotsman and for Gioconda's lover, Gianni. These newfound friends require of Jenny much more than she had foreseen, while gradually revealing to her the changing face of love. Short-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize, Shirley Hazzard won Australia's biggest literary prize, the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and the 2003 National Book Award in the United States for The Great Fire. 'Hazzard's mind is a revolving light that picks a scene, holds it in utmost clarity for a moment against the surrounding darkness and moves on' -New York Times.
language: English
title: The Bay of Noon
titlecomplete: The Bay of Noon
characters: Jenny Unsworth, Gianni, Justin Tulloch, Gioconda
genres: Fiction, Italy, Australia, Womens, Female Authors, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 752
places: Italy, Naples
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Booker Prize
category: The Lost Man Booker Prize, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Virago Modern Classics