The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 November 1990
Pages
352
ISBN
9780140107470

The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century. - The Paris Review

Finalist for the National Book Award Winner 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.

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