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Praise for The Secret Chord“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“The Secret Chord—a thundering, gritty, emotionally devastating reconsideration of the story of King David—makes a masterly case for the generative power of retelling. . .some of the magic here has to do with setting and time—for sensory dramatics, it’s hard to compete with the Iron Age Middle East. . .but Brooks’s real accomplishment is that she also enables readers to feel the spirit of the place.”—The New York Times “There’s something bordering on the supernatural about Geraldine Brooks. She seems able to transport herself back to earlier time periods, to time travel. Sometimes, reading her work, she draws you so thoroughly into another era that you swear she’s actually lived in it. With sensory acuity and a deep and complex understanding of emotional states, she conjures up the way we lived then. . .Brooks has humanized the king and cleverly added a modern perspective to our understanding of him. . .[Her] vision of the biblical world is enrapturing.” —The Boston Globe“The David that bursts off the page in this chronicle is a larger-than-life commixture of virtues and flaws. . .I may be late to the party on the amazing Ms. Brooks, but The Secret Chord won me over. Its storytelling magic is as timeless as the tale it tells.”—The San Francisco Chronicle “It’s this David – gifted artist, vainglorious alpha male, conflicted husband and father – that we meet in The Secret Chord, the beautiful, subtle, grave new novel by Geraldine Brooks. . .The Secret Chord paints [a] fresh portrait of King David. . .For Brooks, David is interesting not for his status as the most beautiful man in art history, but, rather, for his matrix of contradictions. . .in this telling, he is the Bible’s ultimate Machiavellian.” —USA Today“Rich and imaginative. . .Thanks to Brooks, David is as compelling as he is contradictory, with the writing in The Secret Chord as lyrical as the lyre that David plays.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune“Deeply sympathetic. . .Brooks offers new perspectives on a character whose story has captured the Western imagination for millennia. . .she breaks from the biblical version by giving voice to the voiceless women in David’s life: wives and lovers, a daughter, a mother -- the beloved and the scorned.” —The Chicago Tribune “A compelling read, contemporary in its relevance. . .The Secret Chord is powerful storytelling, its landscape and time evoked in lyrical prose.” —The Guardian “The best historical fiction. . .Brooks gives the whole king his due. . .It’s a tall order to breathe life into such a human being, and she manages it admirably.” -—NPR“In The Secret Chord, Brooks does what she does best: bring psychological realism and dramatic arc to a subject we scantly know from history and myth. . .The result yields a gripping tale of a ruler’s stresses and sacrifices, his triumphs and shames. The Secret Chord reads like a Shakespeare history play with a dash of Machiavelli.”—The Dallas Morning News “[A] deeply imaginative exploration of this once powerful but deeply flawed ruler. . .Brooks is a gifted, engrossing storyteller. Like March and People of the Book, The Secret Chord is studded with action, interesting characters, sweeping timelines and moving scenes filled with drama and conflict. . .a timely and universal exploration of the limits of loyalty, the seductive and corrupting influence of power, and the intersections between sin and faith, punishment and redemption.”—The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “George R.R. Martin’s got nothing on the biblical chroniclers of David, kind of Israel. Incest? Treachery and murder? Marriages for love and political alliance? This is the original Game of Thrones. . .Each of the members of David’s court comes into sharp relief.”—The Miami Herald “Like her beautiful descriptions of David as worshipful musician, Brooks' surface details befit the ancient story. Her delicate rendering of the spare, sun-pierced land is a painful foreshadowing of its still-embattled importance.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “The Pulitzer-Prize winning author has succeeded in humanizing a mythic figure, breathing life, emotion, and literary resonance into a midrash that transforms David the King into David the Man.” —Haaretz.com“In her gorgeously written novel of ambition, courage, retribution, and triumph, Brooks imagines the life and character of King David in all his complexity. . .The language, clear and precise throughout, turns soaringly poetic when describing music or the glory of David’s city. . .taken as a whole, the novel feels simultaneously ancient, accessible, and timeless.” —ALA Booklist
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About the Author
Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her most recent novel, Caleb’s Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.
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Product details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (October 4, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143109766
ISBN-13: 978-0143109761
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.6 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
703 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#83,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I'm proud to say that I've read all of Geraldine Brooks's books, including her non-fiction. And while some are not as good as others, at her best she is wonderful. From my perspective, "The Secret Chord" joins "March" and "Year of Wonders" as one of her best.First, she has an uncanny ability to transport her readers to other places and times, as she does here and in the other two favorite works; she includes everyday details, such as food and drink, that make those other places and times real and tangible.Second, in her best works, she seizes upon intriguing plots and unusual approaches to those plots -- here, the perspective of a prophet who accompanied David throughout his life and was one of the few people who could be candid with and about him.Last (at least as far as this review is concerned), she is a master (mistress?) of dialogue and description, such that everything seems, well, so natural.These skills all come together in "The Secret Chord," and as a result the book is not only a great narrative; it is also a study of power and how it corrupts both the wielder of power and those close to him/her.This book is simply wonderful and will almost surely be in my Top 10 for 2015.
I just returned this book at 30 percent read, even though our book club is reading it this month. I'm giving it two stars only because the author can write.Brooks' language, while perhaps true to the time and situation, is offensive. And I read contemporary general-market thriller, suspense, and mystery (Silva, Badacci, Thor, Penny, Child), so I'm not lily-white in terms of my reading.The homosexual relationship between King David and Jonathan is offensive and heretical. There's also not, among respected Biblical scholars—both left- and right-leaning—a shred of credible evidence to support this assertion. (I don't consider myself a scholar, but my graduate degree is from one of America's leading seminiaries.)The only thing I can figure out is that Ms. Brooks decided to get sensational with her facts to increase sales. I hope that worked for her. But I'll not read another of her books and will encourage book club to avoid them in the future.
I have read every published book of Geraldine Brooks, fiction and nonfiction. She never disappoints. The Secret Cord brings depth, color and vitality to a well-known story. To any who ask why read a novel of such a well-known story I can only respond that when you read this book you comprehend the story and David with new understanding. While consistent with the story as it has come down to us, the book supplies the color, details and smells beyond beyond the biblical story. A triumph of story telling. It is much more than an historical novel. It paints a compelling portrait of a fascinating and at times, repellant, and at times, heroic character.
Geraldine Brooks is a mastercrafts women when it comes to writing. This topic is one of her most ambitious yet as she brings to life the story of King David. I have to admit I struggled with the first three chapters as it's not her normal style however this sets the scene for the book so relevant even if felt a bit rigid. Once I got to the fourth chapter the writing changed slightly and the characters sprang to life. Wow, could not put it down.The story was well researched and brought to life the life and times of the Old Testament, bloody battles, adultery, family feuds and strategies that founded Israel . I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and recommend pushing through the first few chapters and know you will enjoy the ride.
This book is about King David; his rise to power and maintenance of the throne, the people who surrounded him, loved him, envied him, and hated him, who he was as a leader and who he was as a person. Despite the many unfamiliar names and places, the clarity of Brooks' writing makes this story comfortable to read. There was an undercurrent of debate in my reading group as to whether or not this is a "true" account of King David's life. For me this didn't matter because my take away was that I had experienced a beautifully crafted narrative that connected me to the consistencies of human emotions throughout time. The themes of love and war and the complexity of these things ring as true today as they did then.
We had just returned from Israel where we had visited an archeological site identified as David's palace, so the book's following of the actual "facts on the ground" was quite impressive. Most of us are familiar with the bare bones of David's story, but the author puts flesh on the tales. I was initially irritated with her use of the characters' names in their Hebrew spelling rather than their more familiar, Anglicized, forms; but I got used to them and grudgingly accept that this device forced me to think of the characters more discerningly. It took me longer to read as a consequence but helped my comprehension.
Not typically interested in books about history, much less Old Testament history, I was surprised how the details of the lives of David (who became King David) and the family and friends around him became so important to me. Geraldine Brooks guesswork buoyed by all the research she has done brings this whole period of time--1000 years before Jesus' story begins--into immediate focus. There is a great amount of detail about the tribal cultures that existed and the continual fighting that existed between them. Make no mistake, this is an adventure story and at times, a mystery as well. The book is easily read, Geraldine Brooks excells at creating a riveting story between the known facts.
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