Nine Parts of Desire

The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Geraldine Brooks, Geraldine Brooks

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Bantam
03 March 2008

History; Cultural studies; Gender studies: women; Islamic studies

Discover the acclaimed non-fiction of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks...

'Frank, enraging and captivating.'

The New Yorker

Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall Street Journal suddenly 'adopted the uniform of a Muslim fundamentalist', Geraldine Brooks set out to discover the truth about women and Islam.

Sometimes adopting a chador as camouflage, she was granted meetings (and often astonishingly intimate insights) by everyone from Queen Noor of Jordan to former Iranian President Rafsanjani's daughter. She met with Palestinians protesting about 'honour killings' for adultery and sheltered girls transformed into warriors by the Emirates' armed forces. Throughout the Middle East, Brooks was invited into the homes and lives of these women where she found real stories that overturn western stereotypes.

This beautiful new edition includes a powerful new Afterword by the author.

By: Geraldine Brooks, Geraldine Brooks
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 214g
ISBN: 9781863256124
ISBN 10: 1863256121
Publication Date: 03 March 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Geraldine Brooks is the Australian-born author of the bestselling novels Year of Wonders and March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. Her eagerly-awaited third novel, People of the Book, will be published in 2008. She is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence, both published in Australia by Bantam. A graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East. She lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz, and their son.