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The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Transit of Venus about?

"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris ReviewFinalist for the National Book AwardWinner of the National Book Critics' Circle AwardThe 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 themselvesThe 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.

Who reads The Transit of Venus?

Author

Shirley Hazzard

Publisher

Virago

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670724260

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (249 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13