![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a shifting, multifaceted tapestry that captures both the enormity of David’s crimes as well as his generosity and largeness of heart. ![]() The entire arc of King David’s career, from boy shepherd to raging decrepitude, is told through the prophet Natan (mentioned in just a few enticing places in scripture, his shadowy presence leaves a great deal for Brooks to fill in).īrooks adds further layers to his sometimes melancholy perspective through employing the ingenious (slyly anachronistic) device of the interviews he conducts with others, presumably at the behest of the king himself who wishes a full and unsparing chronicle of his life and kingship to be a legacy. In The Secret Chord, her latest novel, Geraldine Brooks (author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, March, among other international bestsellers), has set herself the daunting challenge of portraying one of the most heroic and yet morally troubling figures in the entire corpus of Jewish literature and indeed world literature as a whole. ![]()
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