24 January 2005
The Great Fire
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by Shirley Hazzard
After the Second World War, in war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women must reinvent their lives and learn, from their past, to dream again.
Transcript
This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
Twenty years in the writing, "The Great Fire" is a triumphant novel of lives shadowed by war and redeemed by love. Hazzard's brilliant prose casts a hypnotic spell in which readers - and listeners - can lose themselves.
Reader: Paul English
Abridged and produced by: Anne McInerney
Concludes 16 February 2005
