# The Transit of Venus

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- Book: [The Transit of Venus](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-hazzard/the-transit-of-venus) ([The Transit of Venus.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-hazzard/the-transit-of-venus.md))
- Authors: [Shirley Hazzard](https://www.bookquiver.com/shirley-hazzard)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4010-747-0
- Pages: 352
- Published: 1990-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris Review Finalist for the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award...