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International bestseller pulitzer prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of muslim women in the middle east. She was previously a correspondent for the wall street journal in bosnia, somalia, and the middle east. Geraldine brooks was born on 14th september 1955 in sydney, new south wales, australia. Feb 22, 2007 geraldine brooks nine parts of desire is a fascinatingly rich portrait of a littleknown world that lifts the veil on the lives of islamic women. I enjoyed the fact of knowing that the journalist who had conducted that field research was a jew.