{"product_id":"2026100009236-secondhand-the-evening-of-the-holiday","title":"The Evening Of The Holiday","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: whiteout on fep. price clipped dj. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the sun-drenched landscapes of postwar Italy, The Evening of the Holiday chronicles the passionate yet ill-fated love affair between Sophie, a young English woman on an extended visit, and Tancredi, a charming Italian architect already bound by prior commitments. Shirley Hazzard renders this doomed romance with a poet's precision, capturing the intoxicating beauty of Italian life — its light, its language, its ancient customs — as a backdrop to a relationship that both characters know, from its very first moments, cannot last.\n\nHazzard writes with a luminous, almost melancholy restraint that draws inevitable comparisons to Henry James and E.M. Forster, presenting a meditation on transience, longing, and the quiet devastation of choices made in full awareness of their consequences. First published in 1963, this slender but profound novel established Hazzard as a master stylist of the 20th century, one whose sentences carry the weight of entire emotional landscapes. For those who have yet to discover her work, this novel is an irresistible and haunting entry point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219869933787,"sku":"2026100009236-SECONDHAND","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/6414d467-1519-475c-8da5-1f6309967594.png?v=1788482992","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009236-secondhand-the-evening-of-the-holiday","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}