The Great Fire

Hazzard, Shirley

American-occupied Japan two years after the end of World War Two; Alfred Leith and Helen Driscoll meet in a broken landscape, hopscotching between Japan, Hong Kong, Britain and New Zealand.

Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition 2003
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: New York
Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate. Fine in first issue dustwrapper without Anita Shreve's endorsement and with finalist sticker for the National Book Award.


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