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The Transit of Venus
First edition
AuthorShirley Hazzard
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
1980
Media typePrint
Pages352 (first edition)
ISBN9780140107470 (first edition)

The Transit of Venus is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.[1]

  1. ^ "A Look Back at Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus". National Book Critics Circle. 25 January 2008. Archived from the original on December 27, 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2016.

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