The Transit Of Venus
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Reissue of this highly acclaimed Virago title, a 'finely written, beautiful and tragic novel' - Hermione Lee, FT
Shirley Hazzard Libri
30 gennaio 1931 – 12 dicembre 2016
Shirley Hazzard è stata un'autrice di prosa elegante e precisa, le cui opere hanno spesso esplorato le complessità delle relazioni umane e della condizione umana. La sua raffinatezza stilistica e l'attenzione ai dettagli hanno dominato sia i suoi romanzi che le sue opere di saggistica. Sebbene le sue esperienze di vita includessero viaggi in tutto il mondo e il lavoro presso organizzazioni internazionali, la sua scrittura si è concentrata su una profonda esplorazione letteraria e una critica incisiva delle istituzioni politiche e sociali. Hazzard ha catturato magistralmente la vita interiore dei suoi personaggi, collocandoli allo stesso tempo nel più ampio contesto degli eventi globali.
'Shirley Hazzard is, purely and simply, one of the greatest writers working in the English today' (Michael Cunningham). Now at last comes the first complete book of her short stories, including those previously uncollected.
Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda's lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.
The Evening Of The Holiday
- 160pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
From the prizewinning author of The Great Fire comes 'an authentic work of art . . . A cause for delight and gratitude . . . Beautiful, absorbing, satisfying' Chicago Tribune
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the centre of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in Occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.
