The Great Fire; Shirley Hazzard

Solares Hill | June 18, 2004| | Copyright

The art critic Robert Hughes remarked in a speech at London's National Gallery recently that a work of art "should hold time as a vase holds water" and commented that this is a rare thing.

Reading Shirley Hazzard's new novel, one has that sense of its ability to "hold time." It's set in Hong Kong and Japan after the end of World War II, so is specific to a time and place; but the writing is so steady and luminous that it seems to hold eternal truths and Hazzard's take on the story she has to tell is so sure that we don't doubt her for a second as she picks her way through a minefield of a ...

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