6/9/2023 0 Comments The Great Fire by Jim Murphy![]() ![]() Helen, still younger, is inseparable from her brother. Benedict, at twenty, is doomed by a rare degenerative disease. Now in their thirties, with their youth behind them and their world in ruins, both must invent the future and retrieve a private humanity.Īrriving in Occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb at Hiroshima, Leith meets Benedict and Helen Driscoll, the Australian son and daughter of a tyrannical medical administrator. The men have maintained long-distance friendship in a postwar loneliness that haunts them both, and which has swallowed Exley whole. Both men have narrowly escaped death in battle, and Leith saved Exley's life. ![]() Peter Exley, another veteran and an art historian by training, is prosecuting war crimes committed by the Japanese. Son of a famed and sexually ruthless novelist, Leith begins to resist his own self-sufficiency, nurtured by war. In its wake, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. ![]() The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. ![]()
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