People Of The Book by Brooks Geraldine

People Of The Book by Brooks Geraldine

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding an insect-wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair she begins to unlock the books mysteries. The listener is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the books journey from its salvation back to its creation.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of both sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity and is an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.Her most recent novel, Caleb s Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.

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ISBN 13	9780143114543
ISBN 10	0143114549
Title	People Of The Book
Author	Brooks Geraldine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books
Year published	2008-10-07
Number of pages	448
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.