by Geraldine Brooks · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385483735
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«Foreign Correspondence» is Geraldine Brooks's memoir, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Geraldine Brooks recalls her childhood in a working-class suburb of Sydney and the network of pen pals who showed her the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Two decades later, now a foreign correspondent, she sets out to find those correspondents and discovers lives marked by war, hatred, fame, and mental illness.
Winner of the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award in 1999. The subtitle is A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over.
May appeal to readers of memoirs, travel, and journalism; also a common choice for book clubs.
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March.
