The Diamond

The Diamond by Julie Baumgold

The Diamond is a brilliant, dazzling historical novel about a famous diamond — one of the biggest in the world — that passed from the hands of William Pitt's grandfather to the French kings and Napoleon, linking many of the most famous personalities of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and serving as the centerpiece for a novel in every way as fascinating as Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover or Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.

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TIME Magazine
September 10, 2007 Vol. 170 No. 11

• COVER: A Time To Serve - In a changing society facing all manner of new challenges, volunteers are helping bind America together. Why the U.S. and the next President should make a new commitment to national service
• WORLD: Intimidation In Tehran - On the eve of leaving Iran, a reporter reflects on this summer's crackdown on dress and behavior--and on her family's and friends' dreams for an easier future
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: The Man in the Mask - How the Master Chief, centerpiece of the Halo series, became a new kind of star for a new millennium
• SCIENCE: Rewiring the Brain - A little bit of current may calm the tremors of Parkinson's disease, ease depression and epilepsy, and awaken those with terrible injuries