![]() His is one of the most dismaying cases of Stockholm Syndrome to be found in recent fiction. Orphaned by David during the future king’s early rape-and-plunder phase, Natan gradually reveals himself to be suffering from more than “divinely inspired” fits. Our guide through this bleakly dramatized account of the life and times of King David of Old Testament fame is a possibly prophetic, probably epileptic, man named Natan (Brooks gives her characters names that have been transliterated from the Biblical Hebrew). But what kind of god could will this baseness, this treachery? What kind of nation could rise under such a leader? If David was a man after this god’s own heart, as my inner voice had told me often and again, what kind of black-hearted deity held me in his grip?” ![]() ![]() ![]() “What had I done with my life, to give it into the service of this evil? I had seen myself as a man in the hand of - serving the king chosen to lead his people in this land. ![]() Two-thirds of the way through “The Secret Chord,” the latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks, the narrator has a moment of clarity. ![]()
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