Shirley Hazzard wrote literary fiction about love, displacement, institutions and the long afterlife of war. The Great Fire follows a British war veteran in post-war Asia whose relationship with a young woman develops amid illness, occupation and social expectation. The Transit of Venus traces two Australian sisters through decades of relationships and movement between countries, while The Bay of Noon is set in Naples. Hazzard's prose is elegant, compressed and highly attentive to implication, with emotional shifts often carried through syntax rather than explanation. Her novels suit readers of literary relationship fiction, expatriate settings and post-war historical fiction. Read more Less
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