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Born: Established: 1960 ;
Gender: Female
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7 24 y separately published work icon Caleb's Crossing : A Novel Geraldine Brooks , ( trans. Judith Schwaab with title Insel zweier Welten ) Munich : Btb , 2012 Z1753531 2011 single work novel historical fiction

'In 1665, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck was the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Here, Pulitzer Prize winner Brooks imagines that Caleb was befriended by Bethia Mayfield, whose minister father wants to convert the neighboring Wampanoag and makes educating Caleb one of his goals. Bethia, herself desperate for book learning, ends up as an indentured servant in Cambridge, watching Caleb bridge two cultures.'

Source: Readings website, www.readings.com.au
Sighted: 10/01/2011
2 3 y separately published work icon Beneath the Shadows Sara Foster , ( trans. Judith Schwaab with title Wintermoor : kriminalroman ) Hamburg : Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag , 2011 Z1758171 2011 single work novel 'When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam disappears. The following year, Grace returns with her baby daughter, Millie . She is desperate for answers, but resigned to preparing the cottage for sale. With no-one prepared to divulge their secrets, Grace finds herself unwilling to trust anyone. Then, just as snowfall threatens to cut her off from the rest of the world, she makes a terrible discovery. In the aftermath, she realises that she has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along.' Source: Libraries Australia (Sighted 07/02/2011).
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