Geraldine Brooks, Author . Viking $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-91021-2
Discriminating readers who view the term historical novel with disdain will find that this debut by praised journalist Brooks (Foreign Correspondence) is to conventional work in the genre as a diamond is to a rhinestone. With an intensely observant...
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Geraldine Brooks, Author . Viking $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-03335-5
Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders
, imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
. An idealistic Concord cleric, March becomes a Union...
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Geraldine Brooks, Author . Viking $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-670-01821-5
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Reading Geraldine Brooks's remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders
, or more recently March
, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a...
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Geraldine Brooks, Author Anchor Books $15 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-47577-8
Having spent six years covering the Middle East for the Wall Street Journal, Brooks presents an exploration of the daily life of Muslim women and the often contradictory forces that shape their lives. (Jan.)
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Geraldine Brooks, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-385-47576-1
``Almighty God created sexual desires in ten parts; then he gave nine parts to women and one to men,'' explained Ali, founder of Islam's Shiite branch. In this powerful and enlightening report, Muslim women emerge from under their black chadors-often
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Geraldine Brooks, Author Doubleday Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-48269-1
Growing up in middle-class Sydney, Australia, Brooks acquired pen pals from all over the world. More than 20 years later, after she became a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, she tracked down a few of them to see ""how they had been
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Geraldine Brooks. Viking, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-02104-8
Pulitzer Prize–winner Brooks (for March) delivers a splendid historical inspired by Caleb Cheeshahteaumauck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. Brooks brings the 1660s to life with evocative period detail, intriguing characters, and
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Geraldine Brooks. Viking, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-02577-0
Brooks’s interest in religious commitment (People of the Book) accrues rich rewards in this ambitious and psychologically astute novel about the harp-playing, psalm-singing King David of the bible. A man of contradictory impulses, David was also a...
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Geraldine Brooks, Author, Claudio Molinari, Translator Rba Libros $19.99 (394p) ISBN 978-84-9867-358-6
When Australian rare-books author Hanna Heath travels to Sarajevo to restore the legendary Sarajevo Haggadah, she gets a lot more than she bargained for. The beautiful book was rescued during a Serb bombing by Muslim librarian Ozren Karaman, and...
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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Geraldine Brooks. Viking, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-56296-9
Pulitzer winner Brooks returns after The Secret Chord with a fascinating saga based on the true story of a famous 19th-century racehorse. In 2019, Theo Northam, a Black graduate student in Washington, D.C., finds a discarded equestrian painting that
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Geraldine Brooks. Viking, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-65398-2
Pulitzer-winning novelist Brooks (Horse) delivers a moving and lyrical account of the years following her husband’s death. In 2019, Brooks’s 60-year-old husband, Tony Hurwitz, died of a heart attack. Three years later, Brooks spent several months on
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