Nine Parts of Desire
The Hidden World of Islamic Women
$25.17
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2008
Summary
Discover the acclaimed non-fiction of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks.
“Frank, enraging and captivating.” - The New Yorker
Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent, she spent six years covering the Middle East. When her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of The Wall Street Journal suddenly “adopted the uniform of a Muslim fundamentalist,” Ger…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781863256124 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1863256121 |
| Author: | Geraldine Brooks |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia) |
| Imprint: | Bantam |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is the Australian-born author of the bestselling novels Year of Wonders and March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. Her eagerly-awaited third novel, People of the Book, will be published in 2008. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence, both published in Australia by Bantam. A graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their son.
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