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by Shirley Hazzard
narrated by Virginia Leishman
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Media: CD
Book Reference: DIR1469
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7075 7
Duration: 11h 30m (approx.) on 10 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn to dream again. Some will fulfil their destinies, others will falter. One brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough.
His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity...