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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 400 pages | ISBN 9780143115007 | 30 Dec 2008 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
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View our feature on Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.
The “complex and moving”(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare
manuscript through centuries of exile and war
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a
novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called “a
tour de force”by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of
the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century S pain. When it
falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she
discovers in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock
its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist
fanatics.
“Less flash and more substance than The Da Vinci Code . . . The stories of the Sarajevo Haggadah, both factual and fictional, are stirring testaments to the people of many faiths who risked all to save this priceless work.”
— USA Today
“As full of heart and curiosity as it is intelligence and judgment.”
—The Boston Globe
“Intelligent, thoughtful, gracefully written and original.”
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
“Erudite but suspenseful . . . one of the most popular and successful works of fiction in the New Year.”
—Alan Cheuse, NPR / “All Things Considered”
School Library Journal Best Book
ABA Indies Choice Book Award Nominee
New England Book Award for Fiction
Mary Shelly Award
Library of Vermont Literary Award Finalist
Harold U. Ribalow Prize Finalist
I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award: Longlist 2009
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