Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book: A Novel
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 mys
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