· In her latest historical novel, The Secret Chord, Brooks has chosen Natan the prophet to narrate David’s tale. Natan, the son of a vintner, joins David and his band of outlaws after David slays Author: Meredith Jaffe. 7 rows · “The Secret Chord—a thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating reconsideration of the story of /5(K). · The Secret Chord. A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.
Geraldine Brooks' new historical novel, "The Secret Chord," offers spellbinding narrative of the biblical King David, but suffers flaws of its genre. Brooks has humanized the king and cleverly added a modern perspective to our understanding of him. But as a sustained chronicle, "The Secret Chord" is wanting. THE SECRET CHORD. By Geraldine. The Secret Chord. A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of People of the Book and March. With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim.
The Secret Chord is a novel by Australian-American writer Geraldine Brooks. Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel March. Brooks’s trademark is her ability to delve into universal and contemporary themes in historical contexts. March, for example, takes the paternal figure from Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women and imagines the experiences he might have had in the Civil War. “The Secret Chord—a thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating reconsideration of the story of King David—makes a masterly case for the generative power of retellingsome of the magic here has to do with setting and time—for sensory dramatics, it’s hard to compete with the Iron Age Middle Eastbut Brooks’s real accomplishment is that she also enables readers to feel the spirit of the place.”. In her latest historical novel, The Secret Chord, Brooks has chosen Natan the prophet to narrate David’s tale. Natan, the son of a vintner, joins David and his band of outlaws after David slays.
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