![]() Leith takes up residence with the formidable Driscolls, a stern military couple from New Zealand, and soon enough is enchanted by their offspring: a boy of about twenty, Ben, who is wasting away from Ataxia and beautiful Helen, his sister and primary companion, the locus of Leith's romantic love and attentions. After China, Leith is assigned to Japan around the vicinity of Hiroshima to perhaps, conduct similar studies here. His main attraction to enlisting as a soldier is the level of "classlessness" it promises. A son of a rich and famous novelist, Leith suffers from a cold and distant relationship with his father. Leith has just completed a two-year trek across China documenting the effects of war on the country. Aldred Leith and his love, seventeen year-old Helen, as they try to live out lives anew in the aftermath of the Second World War.Īt the onset of the novel, Maj. The novel traces of the path of the protagonist, Maj. Coming more than twenty years after her critically acclaimed Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard's latest, The Great Fire, is in most basic essence, a classic old-fashioned romance. ![]()
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