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Geraldine Brooks is the author of six novels, including Horse, People of the Book, Year of Wonders, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning March. She has also written acclaimed works of nonfiction, including Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and have sold millions of copies around the world. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks divides her time between Sydney and Martha's Vineyard.
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Two interviews with Geraldine Brooks about Year of Wonders and People of the Book.
A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book
Your previous two novels are set during Europe's plague years and the
American Civil War. Now, you've created an epic story about art and religious
persecution. What is it that draws you to a particular subject, or a particular
historical era?
I love to find stories from the past where we can know something, but not
everything; where there is enough of a historical record to have left us with an
intriguing factual scaffolding, but where there are also enough unknowable voids
in that record to allow room for imagination to work.
What do you think it is about the real Sarajevo Haggadah that has
allowed it to survive the centuries?
It's a fascinating question: Why did this little book always find its
protectors when so many others did not? It is interesting to me that the book
was created in a period—convivencia Spain—when diversity was tolerated,
even somewhat celebrated, and that it found its way centuries later to a similar
place, Sarajevo. So even when hateful forces arose in those societies and
crushed the spirit of multiethnic, ...
Novelist, biographer, and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London on October 5, 1949.
He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and studied at Yale University as a Mellon Fellow, where he completed Notes for a New Culture: ...
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If you enjoyed:
March
Try:
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd
Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; I, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; The Wrong End of the Telescope; and the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize. (more)
If you enjoyed:
People of the Book
Try:
The Hakawati
by Rabih Alameddine
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