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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Transit of Venus
• Author: Shirley Hazzard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780140107470
• ISBN: 0140107479
• ID: 10971847
• Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP USA
• Weight: 227 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1990

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