People of the Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780143115007 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingdg7500wing of Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA on 9/28/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingdg7500wing from Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, September 28, 2009
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Amazon Editorial Review:
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.

Journal Entry 2 by wingdg7500wing at RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, December 12, 2009

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