Literature and love are the weapons The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Virago, pounds 15.99, 314 pp pounds 13.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

The Sunday Telegraph London | November 23, 2003| | Copyright

IN THIS ambitious novel, her first for 20 years, the admired Australian-born writer Shirley Hazzard aims high. The title refers to the Second World War, and the book deals with great themes; love, death and the messy aftermath of conflict.

Hazzard, who as a young woman worked for the United Nations in the Far East and New York, and has written critical studies of international bureaucracy as well as fiction, tries in this book, not altogether successfully, to endow a tender story of love lost and found with a global, even universal significance.

Her main character is an English war hero, ...

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