Geraldine Brooks Reads from People of the Book
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks says she developed a “lust for books” as a child growing up in Australia. In this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, she discusses her latest novel, People of the Book (Viking, 2008), a fictional narrative of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript created in 1350. (The Haggadah is the traditional text read during the Passover Seder.) The concept for the book came to Brooks while she covered the crisis in the Balkans as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Her novel March (Viking, 2005), which imagines the exploits of John March, father of the four sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, earned her the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006.
Presenter(s): Geraldine Brooks
Date: February 10, 2008
Location: Gasson 100
Sponsor(s): Lowell Humanities Series
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/brooks/
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