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The
2003 Award
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Year of Wonders by
Geraldine Brooks
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Viking ISBN : 067091021X |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow villagers make an extraordinary choice: convinced by a visionary young minister they elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundaries to arrest the spread of the disease. But as death reaches into every household, faith frays. When villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders". |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Geraldine Brooks is the author of two acclaimed works of non-fiction, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and Foreign Correspondence: A Penpal's Journey from Down Under to All Over. During eleven years as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, her beats included some of the world's most troubled areas, including Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks lives with her husband and son in rural Virginia. Year of Wonders is her first novel. |
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