By Jessica Schneider Jan 12, 2009, 12:24 GMT
Geraldine Brooks’ latest is new in paperback. She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel titled “March.”
According to Publishers Weekly, “With equal authority she depicts the struggles of a young girl to escape the Nazis, a duel of wits between an inquisitor and a rabbi living in the Venice ghetto, and a girl's passionate relationship with her mistress in a harem.
Like the illustrations in the Haggadah, each of these sections transports the reader to a fully realized, vividly peopled world. And each gives a glimpse of both the long history of anti-Semitism and of the struggle of women toward the independence that Hanna, despite her mother's lectures, tends to take for granted.
Brooks is too good a novelist to belabor her political messages, but her depiction of the Haggadah bringing together Jews, Christians and Muslims could not be more timely. Her gift for storytelling, happily, is timeless.”
Penguin, 400 pages. Visit Amazon for more details.
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