![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut novel Year of Wonders (2001), set during the bubonic plague, has already become something of a classic, while her second novel, March (2005), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It’s an ambitious premise, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s Brooks. ![]() ![]() 2015) takes readers back three thousand years to ask: who was David? And, in seeking an answer, gives voice to those history has traditionally overlooked. Geraldine Brooks’ The Secret Chord (Hachette Australia, Oct. Everyone knows David the myth, but little is known of David the man. That was my task: to uncover those earliest roots.Įven if you’re not religious, you’re likely familiar with the story of King David, the shepherd boy with a talent for music who slayed a giant, gathered an army and became King of Israel. They pull life from whatever surfaces they cling to, while the roots, maybe, wither and rot until you cannot find the place from which the seed of the vine has truly sprung. …The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. ![]()
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