![]() ![]() The Bible struck Brooks as a "blokey thing" in which females are lucky even to be named, and she has Mikhal ask of women, "Which of them has ever been mistress of her own destiny?" Instead, David's long-time adviser and sometime critic Natan conspires with Batsheva to thwart the plot and get David to name her son, Solomon, king instead. ![]() "As David lies dying at the end of his long life, David's eldest surviving son is trying to steal the throne out from under him. ![]() "It's a brilliant scene, rich with tension and suspense. "The reading that woke me up to the fact that there was much more to David's story than I knew was the haftarah dealing with the death-bed power-plays engineered by Natan," she says. "David had crossed my horizon many times, either in those execrable movies like that Richard Gere debacle or in the cliches – you know, a day doesn't go by when there hasn't been a David and Goliath battle," says Brooks, a former Catholic who converted to Judaism in 1984 after marrying the American author Tony Horwitz.ĭuring the bar mitzvah, Brooks picked up a Jewish text, the Humash, and began reading the David story. Brooks owes the inspiration for the book and the title to Nathaniel and dedicates the novel to him. Nathaniel had taken up the harp and played a beautiful arrangement of the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah. ![]()
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