The Great Fire
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780374706357 (0374706352)
Publish date: April 1st 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
War,
World War II,
Japan,
Australia
Tedious, stilted, dated. Oh, and an unseemly Lolita plot.
Unfortunately this novel didn't really do it for me. There are some beautiful descriptions (despite the time setting of the novel - being post-ww2) and the undercurrents of feelings are absolutely amazing however I get really confused sometimes with the conversations, I don't know if it's me but so...