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Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- Naples
- Rome
- Italy
- England
- London
- Africa
- San Biagio Dei Librai
- America
- Tripoli
- Herculaneum
- Cape Town
- Spain
- Florence
First Sentence edit
A military plane crashed that winter on Mount Vesuvius.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Shirley Hazzard (Author)
Awards edit
- Man Booker Prize (Finalist: The Lost Man Booker, Shortlist)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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