Nine Parts of Desire; The Hidden World of Islamic Women
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1995. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [16], 255, [1] pages. Endpaper map. A Note on Spelling. Glossary. Select Bibliography. Index. Signed with sentiment by the author on the fep. The inscription reads: "With best wishes Geraldine Brooks". An intimate portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women reveals how male pride and power have distorted the message of Islam to justify the subjugation of women and how a feminism of sorts has flowered in spite of repression. Geraldine Brooks AO (born 14 September 1955) is an Australian-American journalist and novelist whose 2005 novel March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was eligible for the prize by virtue of her American citizenship, and was the first Australian to win the prize. A native of Sydney, Geraldine attended Bethlehem College, a secondary school for girls, and the University of Sydney. Following graduation, she was a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and, after winning a Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, moved to the United States, completing a master's degree at New York City's Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. The following year, in the Southern France artisan village of Tourrettes-sur- Loup, she married American journalist Tony Horwitz and converted to Judaism. Brooks's first book, Nine Parts of Desire (1994), based on her experiences among Muslim women in the Middle East, was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages. More