The Secret Chord
The Australian Bestseller
$19.54
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2016
Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, YEAR OF WONDERS and MARCH comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David’s extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace.
‘A skilful reimagining … gracefully and intelligently told.’ - KIRKUS REVIEWS
1000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David.
Anointed as the chosen one when just a young shepherd boy, David will rise to be king, grasping the throne and establishing his empire…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733636264 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0733636268 |
| Author: | Geraldine Brooks |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. - The Washington Post
Brooks evokes time and place with keenly drawn detail … with the verve of an adroit storyteller … Ambitious and psychologically astute. - Publishers Weeklya thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating reconsideration of the story of King David - New York Times Book ReviewMesmerising - The Australian Women’s WeeklyGeorge R.R. Martin’s got nothing on the biblical chroniclers of David, King of Israel … This is the original GAME OF THRONES. - Miami HeraldTHE SECRET CHORD is powerful storytelling, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose … Brooks has crafted from THE SECRET CHORD a compelling read, contemporary in its relevance. - The Guardian AustraliaA skillful reimagining … gracefully and intelligently told. - Kirkus ReviewsRich and imaginative … David is as compelling as he is contradictory. We feel his desires and understand his mistakes. - Minneapolis Star TribuneAbout The Author
Geraldine Brooks
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in Sydney’s western suburbs. She worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and in 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University. Later she worked for the Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. In 2006 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel March. Her novels Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord were New York Times bestsellers, and Year of Wonders was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her novel Horse was the winner of the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award and Fiction Indie Book Award for 2023, the 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for 2023, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize 2022 and the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2023. In 2011 she presented Australia’s prestigious Boyer Lectures, later published as The Idea of Home. In 2016 she was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to literature. Geraldine Brooks divides her time between Sydney and Massachusetts and has two sons.
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