{"product_id":"0374278210-the_great_fire_today_show_book_club-16","title":"The Great Fire (Today Show Book Club #16)","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than twenty years after the classic \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett \"is brilliant and dazzling...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. 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. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia’s coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity. \u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love in the aftermath of war by \"purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in English today.\" (Michael Cunningham)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2003 National Book Award, Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47622800736446,"sku":"0374278210-4","price":11.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71C1gJj0XOL.jpg?v=1781191634","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0374278210-the_great_fire_today_show_book_club-16","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}