The Koran: The Chapter of Congealed Blood

Who teaches man that which he knoweth not.' I just wrote a bloody long review of this book then the ******* goodreads website ate it. They divide their time between homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Sydney, Australia.Īaargh. They have two sons– Nathaniel and Bizuayehu–and two dogs. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.īrooks married author Tony Horwitz in Tourette-sur-Loup, France, in 1984.

Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller, and People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans. In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īustralian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks' acute analysis of the world's fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith. Nine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. 'Frank, enraging, and captivating.' - The New York Times 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 fundamentalism. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East.

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