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Rent People of the Book
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jan 2009
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 400
Synopsis
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.
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Reviews
And yes, this is a wonderful book in both senses of that word: It not only a joy to read, but chock full of wonders. Geraldine Brppks not only writes beautifully, she manages to give each of her characters his or her individual voice And she does this though they live live in different eras and have wildly different backgrounds. Her historical research is--as far as I can tell--impeccable and she even makes what might seem to be the deadly dull craft of pigment making in the 15th century come alive. While this is not a particularly easy or fast read--one wants to linger over sentences and perhaps reread them--I heartily recommend this book to all those who value intriguing tales tolled wonderfully well. :
I couldn't put it down -- Brooks' best yet. She excels at finding a true story and fleshing it out with believable characters to make the history live.