# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-565-4
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2021-03-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The 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...