The Great Fire

I'm not sure why I got this book. Perhaps I was falsely drawn in by the title. The book just never seemed to go anywhere. It is set after World War II. A bunch of characters pop out and do some things. They talk about the present and the past. They end up in a lot of places. (Primarily Asia Pacific - China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, California and England.) Some guy likes some girl, and eventually meets her alone after a bunch of other people leave for a funeral. I guess that was supposed to be the point. Ugh.