The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard

Title: The Transit of Venus
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0 14 005893 1
Published in Penguin Books, 1981

Condition: Good vintage reading copy with noticeable shelf wear, creasing, edge wear, spine wear, and age toning. Covers show rubbing and handling marks. Binding remains intact and pages are readable throughout. Please see photos for the exact condition of the copy available.

The Transit of Venus is widely regarded as the masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard and one of the major literary novels of the twentieth century.

Spanning decades and moving between Sydney, London, New York, and Europe, the novel follows orphaned Australian sisters Grace and Caro Bell as they navigate love, ambition, betrayal, intellect, and fate. Elegant, emotionally precise, and quietly devastating, the novel combines intimate psychological observation with a broad, almost classical sense of destiny.

First published in 1980, the book won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award and has since become a modern classic admired for its extraordinary prose style and emotional depth.