Articles tagged "geraldine brooks"

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Author Geraldine Brooks sheds light on ‘People of the Book’

by Edward M. Eveld [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[15.Jul.09] :. The clues were all there — accidents of history — hiding inside the ancient book: an insect wing, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair. Geraldine Brooks, author of “People of...

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Travel Feature

Pathways to Creation: Exploring Sacred Music in Fes, Morocco

by Derek Beres

[21.Jul.08] :. PopMatters goes to Morocco for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to honor and share the world’s great spiritual music traditions. At this 14th annual festival, Derek Beres would hear the indigenous sounds of Vietnam, Tunisia, Norway, Pakistan, Belgium, America, and much more.

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Pulitzer Prize-winner invents a history in ‘People of the Book’

by Jessica Yadegaran [Contra Costa Times (MCT)]

[21.Feb.08] :. Geraldine Brooks wasn’t born Jewish, but by age 14, she was obsessed with the religion, its people and plight. In fact, it was during the Six-Day War in 1967 that Brooks, who would go on to...

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Books Review

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

by Diane Leach

[22.Jan.08] :. Brooks’ use of this damaged child is unrealistic, ultimately, and adds nothing to the text, unless you needed a reminder that war is bad for children and other living things.

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Wondrous Jewish icon inspired Geraldine Brooks

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Jan.08] :. MIAMI—Novelist Geraldine Brooks cannot forget her first glimpse of the “Sarajevo Haggadah.” The book—a 14th century, illustrated Hebrew manuscript that miraculously survived...

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Books Review

March by Geraldine Brooks

by David Pullar

[19.May.06] :. March's lessons can be taken on board by any liberal concerned by conservatives gaining ground in the 'culture wars'.

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