The Great Fire

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  eISBN 9780374706357

  First eBook Edition : February 2011

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hazzard, Shirley, 1931—

  The great fire / Shirley Hazzard. p. cm.

  ISBN 0-312-42358-6

  EAN 978-0312-42358-2

  1. World War, 1939—1945—Influence—Fiction. 2. Reconstruction (1939—1945)—Fiction. 3. Hong Kong (China)—Fiction. 4. England—Fiction. 5. Japan—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR9619.3.H369G74 2003

  823’.914—dc21

  2003049189