Geraldine Brooks Books Plague. The international bestsellers caleb's crossing, people of the book, and year of wonders; Alfred hickling is stunned by geraldine brooks' tale of the black death village that sacrificed itself for the health of a nation, year of wonders.
A novel of the plague by geraldine brooks, penguin books. Years of wonders is a standalone novel by geraldine brooks. So she invites this stranger in, he almost immediately becomes very sick and we know that bad things are coming, lynn.
As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a year of wonders. inspired by the true story of eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of england, year of wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.
Read this book, and you’ll gain a new appreciation of both the virtues and the failings of christianity as practiced in 17th. This is one of at least four books i’ve read over the years that deal with the plague. 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. Journal of a plague year.