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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A Time Best Memoir of 2025 · Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, People, Air Mail, Bookreporter, and Publishers Weekly “Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. ... Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it’s moreover a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief.” —Los Angeles Times “A rich account of marriage and mourning.” —Washington Post A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz – just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous and healthy – collapsed and died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk. After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha’s Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at the beach. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony’s death. A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

This book gives you a glimpse of life’s minutiae – good and bad. One that will make you wonder and ponder.

Der große New-York-Times-Bestseller – von der Autorin des Welterfolgs »Das Pesttuch« Washington, D.C., 2019: Jess, eine junge australische Wissenschaftlerin, und Theo, ein nigerianisch-amerikanischer Kunsthistoriker, finden sich durch ihr gemeinsames Interesse an einem Pferd unerwartet verbunden. Jess untersucht die Knochen des Hengstes nach Hinweisen auf seine Kraft und Ausdauer – Theo will die verlorene Geschichte des unbekannten schwarzen Trainers aufdecken, der für seinen Rennerfolg entscheidend war. New York City, 1954: Martha Jackson, eine Galeristin, die für ihr Gespür bekannt ist, entdeckt ein Ölgemälde eines Pferdes aus dem 19. Jahrhundert von unbekannter Herkunft. Kentucky, 1850: Ein versklavter Junge namens Jarret und ein braunes Fohlen schmieden ein Band der Verständigung, das das Pferd zu Rekordsiegen im Süden Amerikas führen wird. Als der Bürgerkrieg ausbricht, wird auch ein junger Künstler, der sich mit Gemälden des Rennpferdes einen Namen gemacht hat, zu den Waffen gerufen. In einer gefährlichen Nacht trifft er auf den Hengst und seinen Reiter Jarret, weit entfernt vom ehemaligen Glanz der Rennstrecke. Basierend auf der wahren Geschichte des siegreichen Rennpferds Lexington ist »Das Gemälde« ein Roman über Kunst und Wissenschaft, Liebe und Besessenheit und unsere offene Rechnung mit alltäglichem Rassismus.

Raça, o novo romance da autora de As memórias do livro Uma pintura abandonada em uma pilha de lixo. Uma ossada esquecida no porão de um museu. A história misteriosa do mais notável cavalo de corrida de todos os tempos. As consequências cruéis da escravidão que ainda nos dias de hoje assombram milhões de vidas. Em Raça, a vencedora do prêmio Pulitzer, Geraldine Brooks, combina realidade e ficção para contar a história perdida de Lexington, a maior lenda do hipismo, e reflete sobre o racismo ainda presente nas mais diferentes esferas da nossa sociedade.

Lexington, Kentucky, 1850. Il primo giaciglio che Jarret ricordi è in una scuderia. Sua madre dormiva nella villa in cui faceva da balia al figlio del padrone. Sul suo letto di paglia tra due castroni, Jarret impara cosí presto a comprendere i versi dei cavalli, il loro umore, le simpatie, i loro timori. La prima cosa che apprende è che i cavalli vivono nella paura, e che basta sapere questo per capire come trattarli. Quando sua madre si ammala e muore, Jarret ha soltanto tre anni, inerme come un puledro senza piú una giumenta a proteggerlo. Valente addestratore di cavalli, Harry, il padre, spende ogni risparmio per fare quello che ogni nero del Kentucky nella metà dell’Ottocento sogna di fare: riscattarsi dalla schiavitú. Non potendo, però, liberare il figlio, chiede al suo datore di lavoro, il dottor Warfield, ricco signore animato da irrefrenabile passione per i cavalli, fondatore, tra gli altri, dell’ippodromo di Lexington, di comprare Jarret. Un giorno, nelle scuderie di Warfield, viene alla luce un magnifico puledro baio con una stella bianca e una chiazza sul muso e tutti e quattro i piedi bianchi. Warfield lo cede a Harry in cambio del compenso di un anno. Affidato alle cure di Jarret, con il nome di Lexington il cavallo non tarda ad affermarsi come un campione. Sbaraglia gli avversari nelle corse nazionali di galoppo e viene celebrato come il primo, grande purosangue d’America. Indossando sempre, tuttavia, i colori di scuderie diverse, poiché nell’America schiavista per legge un uomo dalla pelle nera non può possedere un cavallo. Occorrerà aspettare piú di un secolo perché la storia e il ruolo dei black horsemen nella creazione di una delle piú note leggende americane vengano pienamente alla luce, grazie a una gallerista che si imbatte in un quadro che raffigura Lexington e all’accidentale ritrovamento ai giorni nostri del suo scheletro in una soffitta. Ispirandosi alla vera vicenda di un purosangue, Geraldine Brooks torna a raccontare, con la potenza evocativa che la rende una delle scrittrici contemporanee piú amate, una storia di coraggio e di passione che svela «radici ed eredità dello schiavismo» e mostra come agisca «il razzismo nella vita reale» (Washington Post). «Geraldine Brooks ha l’abilità quasi sovrannaturale di trasportare il lettore nel passato, in un vero e proprio viaggio nel tempo». The Boston Globe «Una narrazione trascinante che crea una profonda empatia nel lettore. Con un forte messaggio morale: il veleno del razzismo non appartiene al passato». Kirkus Reviews «La storia vera del piú celebre cavallo da corsa del xix secolo raccontata magistralmente da Geraldine Brooks si intreccia con quella di personaggi indimenticabili come lo schiavo Jarret». Publishers Weekly

“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME “A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion—you just can’t look away.” —Oprah Daily Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award · Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize · A Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Căzut în dizgrație și urmărit de oamenii regelui Saul, tânărul David, împreună cu un grup de apropiați, jefuiește satele Iudeei. Dacă i se opune rezistență, omoară fără ezitare. Într-o astfel de incursiune, Natan, băiatul care tocmai privise cum tatăl îi este ucis, vorbește cu un glas profetic care nu-i aparține, prorocind ascensiunea lui David la tronul Iudeei. Din acel moment, Natan este nedespărțit de soldatul, regele și poetul David, este confesor, martor și proroc al faptelor de vitejie, al victoriilor și al pierderilor, al nelegiuirilor și al ispășirilor celui care avea să lase posterității o legendă tulburătoare și cei peste o sută cincizeci de psalmi. După o muncă uriașă de documentare, cu o intuiție și o empatie ce transcend mileniile, Geraldine Brooks ne transportă într-o lume de demult pe care o însuflețește și o preschimbă pentru noi din manuscrise moarte într-o realitate vie. „O carte extrem de captivantă... Brooks este o maestră a reînvierii trecutului... Prin abilitatea ei, trecutul trezește în noi ecoul celor mai adânci frământări: dragostea și pierderea, drama și tragedia, haosul și brutalitatea.“ The Washington Post „Glasul de taină – o reconsiderare tulburătoare, dură, distrugătoare a legendei regelui David – constituie o pledoarie magistrală pentru puterea creatoare a repovestirii trecutului... Magia constă în reconstituirea cadrului și a timpului ca scenă a unei drame senzoriale, iar adevărata realizare a lui Geraldine Brooks este aceea că oferă cititorilor posibilitatea să simtă spiritul epocii.“ The New York Times „Cu acuitate senzorială și cu o înțelegere profundă și complexă a stărilor emoționale, Brooks evocă modul în care trăiau oamenii în vremea aceea. Autoarea îl umanizează pe regele David și, cu inteligență, adaugă o perspectivă modernă felului în care îl receptăm. Viziunea ei asupra universului biblic este fascinantă.“ The Boston Globe

“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post 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. Now, Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense, that have been neglected. We see David through the eyes of those who love him or fear him—from the prophet Natan, voice of his conscience, to his wives Mikhal, Avigail, and Batsheva, and finally to Solomon, the late-born son who redeems his Lear-like old age. Brooks has an uncanny ability to hear and transform characters from history, and this beautifully written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal, and power will enthrall her many fans.

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In 1666 the unsuspecting villagers of a North Country town were visited by the plague, carried in a bale of cloth from London. The desperate villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore and witch-hunting.

Dans le Massachusetts, à Concord, un homme quitte femme et enfants pour s'engager auprès des nordistes. Un père aimant, mari fidèle et abolitionniste convaincu : le docteur March. Enrôlé comme aumônier, March va bientôt voir ses certitudes ébranler par les atrocités commises sur le champ de bataille. Mais rien n'aurait pu le préparer à retrouver celle qu'il n'a jamais pu oublier : la belle et douce Grace, une esclave rencontrée vingt ans plus tôt... Entre attirance tragique et culpabilité dévorante, engagements humanistes et devoirs familiaux, lynchages publics et mise à sac de plantations, March va devoir affronter des épreuves qui le changeront à jamais. Seul face à lui-même, sur une terre où s'effacent les frontières entre le bien et le mal...

Zwei Menschen, die sich finden. Zwei Welten, die aufeinanderprallen Nordamerika, 1660 – auf einer kleinen Insel, die heute Martha‘s Vineyard heißt: die 12-jährige Bethia wächst in einer puritanischen Siedlung auf. Ihr Vater ist Prediger, ein strenger Mann, dessen Mission es ist, seinen Glauben auf das Eiland vor Cape Cod zu bringen, das sich die englischen Siedler mit den Wampanoag-Indianern teilen. Doch Bethia fühlt sich fast magisch angezogen von diesen Fremden, die sie oft heimlich auf ihren Streifzügen durch die wilde Natur der Insel beobachtet. Eines Tages trifft sie auf Caleb, den Sohn eines Häuptlings. Auch er ist fasziniert von dem Mädchen mit den blauen Augen und dem wachen Verstand. Die beiden knüpfen ein zartes Band. Doch als sie heranwachsen, kommt der Moment, an dem sie gezwungen werden, für ihre Freundschaft und für ihren Platz im Leben zu kämpfen ...

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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.

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.

È la primavera del 1996 a Sarajevo e Hanna Heath, trentenne restauratrice australiana di manoscritti e libri antichi, giunge nella capitale bosniaca devastata da cinque anni di guerra civile e ancora sotto il fuoco dei cecchini. Deve restaurare la Haggadah di Sarajevo, un manoscritto ebraico prodotto in Spagna in età medievale e ricco di inusuali e variopinte miniature; un'opera preziosa e fondamentale nella storia dell'ebraismo, che fu salvata dal bibliotecario musulmano del Museo di Sarajevo quando, negli anni Quaranta, i nazisti e i famigerati reparti della Mano Nera cercarono di impadronirsene. È dalla voce di Hanna che apprendiamo la magnifica storia del libro, una vicenda fatta di macchie di vino e di sangue, di splendidi fermagli smarriti, di farfalle di montagna, di storie d'amore e di vigliaccheria, di secoli di splendore e di decadenza, di gloriose città, la Siviglia del 1480, la Tarragona del 1492, la Venezia del 1609, la Vienna del 1894, e di uomini giusti.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East. As an Australian American and an experienced foreign correspondent, Brooks' thoughtful analysis attempts to understand the precarious status of women in the wake of Islamic fundamentalism. "Frank, enraging, and captivating." - The New York Times Nine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks' acute analysis of the world's fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women.

Hanna Heath, conservatrice passionnée de manuscrits anciens, se voit confier un livre précieux : une Haggadah retrouvée dans les ruines de Sarajevo. Hanna part à la découverte de l'histoire de ce livre hébreu magnifiquement enluminé et des gens qui ont tout fait pour le protéger, d'Ozren Kamaran, bibliothécaire musulman du Musée national, à l'esclave africaine en Andalousie.

Sidney, 1996. En plena nit, Hanna Heath, una prestigiosa conservadora de manuscrits medievals, rep una trucada: l'Haggadà de Sarajevo, un dels llibres més excepcionals i misteriosos del món, ha reaparegut després de romandre ocult durant anys i les Nacions Unides la reclament perquè en comprovi l'estat. Quan Hanna procedeix a estudiar-lo, descobreix entre les seves pàgines una sèrie de pistes estranyes: una ala d'insecte, un cabell blanc, una taca de vi& Així, la història del llibre és reconstruïda a través del temps gràcies a cadascuna de les mostres. El periple inclou la Sarajevo de 1940, la Viena hedonista de 1894, la Venècia antisemita de 1609, la Tarragona sotmesa per la Inquisició de 1492 i la Sevilla conspiradora de 1480, on va ser il"lustrat. A mesura que es van desvelant les identitats d'aquells que van intervenir en la seva elaboració, també són revelades les vides dels seus salvadors, els guardians del llibre, homes i dones que van arriscar les seves vides per protegir-lo de guerres, persecucions, exili, genocidi& fins aconseguir que arribés sa i estalvi fins als nostres dies. Però, està realment fora de perill?

View our feature on Geraldine Books’s People of the Book. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning 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—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she 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-siècle 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.

En plena madrugada, Hanna Heath, una prestigiosa conservadora de manuscritos medievales, recibe una llamada: la Haggadah de Sarajevo, uno de los libros más excepcionales y misteriosos del mundo, ha reaparecido tras permanecer oculto varios años y las Naciones Unidas la reclaman para que compruebe su estado. Sin dudarlo, acepta el encargo y viaja a Sarajevo. Cuando Hanna procede a su estudio, descubre entre sus páginas una serie de extrañas muestras: un ala de insecto, un cabello blanco, una mancha de vino... A partir de cada una de las muestras, la historia del libro es reconstruida a través del tiempo.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, March secures Geraldine Brooks's place as a renowned author of historical fiction.