The Transit of Venus
The richly evocative modern classic
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
‘One of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century’ PARIS REVIEW
‘The Transit of Venus is astronomical: as sharp, remote and dazzling as a celestial body’ LAUREN GROFF
‘A wonderfully mysterious book … unforgettably rich’ ANNE TYLER
‘Epic and microscopic … stitched in prose of gorgeously sustained intensity’ GEOFF DYER
The tragedy is not that love doesn’t last. The…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349020907 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349020906 |
| Author: | Shirley Hazzard |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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An immense, involving love story … written with Hazzard’s characteristic precision, attention to detail and culture * Country and Town House *
About The Author
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia and travelled the world during her early years, a result of her parents’ diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. At twenty, she moved to New York, working for the United Nations throughout much of the 1950s, which included a posting to Naples. Muriel Spark introduced her to the translator and biographer Francis Steegmuller, whom Hazzard married in 1963. Her novels The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981) were National Book Award finalists, while her last novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award, Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She was also the author of two collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction including the memoir Greene on Capri.
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