Soon after the end of World War II, a disillusioned veteran and U.S. Army major named Aldred Leith travels to a Japanese island, hoping to understand the impact of the war on the place. Meanwhile, his friend Peter Exley is investigati...

A young English girl fleeing her past, Jenny is introduced to the social life of Naples, Italy, where she finds intrigue as well as glamour as she becomes embroiled in the lives of Giocanda, a gifted writer; her lover Gianni, a famous...

During the Feast of the Ascension, Sophie, a young English girl visiting Italy, meets, allows herself to be seduced by, and falls in love with Tancredi, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A collection of short fiction sensitively probes the emotions, desires, and inner conflicts of a variety of characters in ten stories that include "The Party," "Weekend," "Harold," "A Place in the Co...

A moving evocation of a distinguished writer and a luminous place that is also an elegy for an age when a literary life could still be lived among valued friends in unspoiled havens of beauty and repose....A wonderful literary feast i...

Collected Storiesincludes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previousl...

Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and...

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 them...