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The Best American Short Stories
Автор: Brooks Geraldine Жанр: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Год: 2011 Страниц: 363 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132013-07-04
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Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading (San Diego Union-Tribune). With Brooks picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to satisfy this year.
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Caleb's Crossing
Автор: Brooks Geraldine Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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A «New York Times» bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is a Calvinist minister who seeks to convert the native Wampanoag, and Caleb becomes a prize in the contest between old ways and new, eventually becoming the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Inspired by a true story and narrated by the irresistible Bethia, «Caleb's Crossing» brilliantly captures the triumphs and turmoil of two brave, openhearted spirits who risk everything in a search for knowledge at a time of superstition and ignorance.
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People of the Book
Автор: Brooks Geraldine Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hairashe begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation. In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-sicle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.
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