摘要
To find success as a writer in any given field is a precious rarity;to find success in more than one is a feat of near mythic proportions.Australian writer Geraldine Brooks began her career as a journalist working as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal where she spent six years reporting from conflict areas around Egypt,Eritrea,Iran,Israel,Jordan,and elsewhere.This led to her first book,a clear-eyed and compulsively readable piece of narrative journalism called Nine Parts of Desine,which profiles the Muslim women Brooks met while working abroad.
