Geraldine Brooks: 13 books

Book cover of L'armonia segreta
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2016

È l’alba di una calda estate del X secolo a.C. quando il piccolo Natan è destato dal sonno da grida atroci, provenienti da ogni parte del villaggio lungo le rive del Mar Rosso, dove da tempo immemorabile la sua famiglia esercita il mestiere di vignaioli. Si precipita fuori casa, e la scena che...
Book cover of March
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled...
Book cover of Boyer Lectures 2011
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

A compelling Boyer Lecture from Australian literary sensation Geraldine Brooks. For theBoyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of the Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent...
Book cover of The Secret Chord
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life...
Book cover of Nine Parts of Desire

Nine Parts of Desire

The Hidden World of Islamic Women

by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East. As an Australian American and an experienced foreign correspondent, Brooks' thoughtful analysis attempts to understand the precarious status of women in the wake of Islamic...
Book cover of Foreign Correspondence

Foreign Correspondence

A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an...
Book cover of March Il padre delle piccole donne
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2015

1861, Virginia. La Guerra civile infuria e nel salotto di Augustus Clement, dove un tempo la moglie riceveva gli ospiti, ora sono accampati i feriti delle truppe unioniste. Accovacciato in un angolo c’è anche il cappellano March, che si perde nei ricordi di una notte di vent’anni prima quando,...
Book cover of People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008

View our feature on Geraldine Books’s People of the Book. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis...
Book cover of Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders

A Novel of the Plague

by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002

**An unforgettable tale of a brave young woman during the plague in 17th century England from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ** When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as...
Book cover of Caleb's Crossing
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans....
Book cover of Annus mirabilis
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 10, 2018

È una mattina del 1666 a Eyam, un piccolo e isolato villaggio di montagna del Derbyshire, in Inghilterra, e nel grazioso cottage in cui vive, Anna Frith, vedova a diciotto anni con due bambini, dopo aver riempito una brocca d’acqua fresca, raggiunge la stanza di George Viccars, un sarto girovago...
Book cover of L'isola dei due mondi
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2011

America settentrionale, 1660. Bethia Mayfield ha quindici anni quando una sera dal suo letto sente il padre e il fratello annunciare quella che per lei è un'insperata felicità: Caleb della tribù wampanoag, da anni suo grande amico segreto, andrà a vivere nella loro casa, dopo il battesimo e la...
Book cover of I custodi del libro
by Geraldine Brooks
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 23, 2010

È la primavera del 1996 a Sarajevo e Hanna Heath, trentenne restauratrice australiana di manoscritti e libri antichi, giunge nella capitale bosniaca devastata da cinque anni di guerra civile e ancora sotto il fuoco dei cecchini. Deve restaurare la Haggadah di Sarajevo, un manoscritto ebraico prodotto...
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