Brooks, Geraldine.

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague.

New York, Penguin, 2001. Octavo. 308 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

Geraldine Brooks (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. While retaining her Australian passport, she became a United States citizen in 2002. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, published in 2001, became an international bestseller. Set in 1666, the story depicts a young woman’s battle to save fellow villagers as well as her own soul when the bubonic plague suddenly strikes her small Derbyshire village of Eyam. Her 2011 novel Caleb’s Crossing is inspired by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, a Wampanoag convert to Christianity who was the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College, an achievement of the seventeenth century. Brooks, at the invitation of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, delivered the 2011 series of the prestigious Boyer Lectures. These have been published as “The Idea of Home”, and reveal her passionate humanist values. (Wikipedia).

• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780670910212
• Inventory Number: 43623AB

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