“The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century.” – The Paris Review
Finalist for the National Book AwardWinner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard–the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard’s most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women–seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal–becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard’s novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/01/1990
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.12w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780140107470
Language: English
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