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Geraldine Brooks interviewed by Ramona Koval on ABC Radio National's The Book Show, regarding her novel, People of the Book "A Muslim Response to 'Nine Parts of Desire'", Resources for and about Muslim Women, Jannah.org; Geraldine Brooks' Civil War March, NPR; 2008 Interview: Geraldine Brooks, Littoral, blog -Key West Literary Seminar ...
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994) is a non-fiction book by Australian journalist Geraldine Brooks, based on her experiences among Muslim women of the Middle East. It was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages.
The book's Afterword briefly explains which parts of the novel are based on fact and which are imaginary. Geraldine Brooks wrote an article for The New Yorker that provides more details about the Sarajevo Haggadah and its real-life rescuers, especially Dervis Korkut, who hid it from the Nazis. It also explains that Lola, the young Jewish ...
Author Geraldine Brooks is the featured speaker at this year's Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County Love of Literacy Luncheon on April 11 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West ...
March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862.
The Secret Chord is a 2015 novel about King David by Australian American author Geraldine Brooks. [1] Plot summary. Told from the point of view of the prophet Nathan, ...
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. [1] It was chosen as both a New York Times [2] and Washington Post [3] Notable Book.
He likes books, whereas she is a movie person. They’ve both gotten their hearts broken once — Isaac, by his cheating father, and Iris, by an ex whom she had thoughts of stabbing. Again, uh-oh!