The Transit of Venus: The richly evocative modern classic
Dec 2020 · Hachette UK
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ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 GREATEST NOVELS
'One of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century' PARIS REVIEW
'The Transit of Venus is astronomical: as sharp, remote and dazzling as a celestial body' LAUREN GROFF
'A wonderfully mysterious book . . . unforgettably rich' ANNE TYLER
'Epic and microscopic . . . stitched in prose of gorgeously sustained intensity' GEOFF DYER
'One of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century' PARIS REVIEW
'The Transit of Venus is astronomical: as sharp, remote and dazzling as a celestial body' LAUREN GROFF
'A wonderfully mysterious book . . . unforgettably rich' ANNE TYLER
'Epic and microscopic . . . stitched in prose of gorgeously sustained intensity' GEOFF DYER
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Two sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, strong-willed Caro is to find that love brings both betrayal and hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and their paths weave and cross across the world - from Sydney to London, New York to Stockholm - two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them.
Shirley Hazzard's breathtaking masterpiece is an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
From the Orange Prize shortlisted author of THE GREAT FIRE
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 GREATEST NOVELS
'One of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century' PARIS REVIEW
'The Transit of Venus is astronomical: as sharp, remote and dazzling as a celestial body' LAUREN GROFF
'A wonderfully mysterious book . . . unforgettably rich' ANNE TYLER
'E...
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Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia and travelled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. At twenty, she moved to New York, working for the United Nations throughout much of the 1950s, which included a posting to Naples. Muriel Spark introduced her to the translator and biographer Francis Steegmuller, whom Hazzard married in 1963. Her novels The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981) were National Book Award finalists, while her last novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award, Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She was also the author of two collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction including the memoir Greene on Capri.
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia and travelled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. At twenty, she moved to New York, working for ...
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