People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

The bestselling novel that follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war, from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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 Spain. 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 ultranationalist fanatics.

Geraldine Brooks is the author of four books, including March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders, which were all international blockbusters. She has also written the nonfiction titles Nine Pieces of Desire and Foreign Letters, both of which have received critical praise. Caleb's Crossing, her most recent novel, was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and won the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award. She was born and reared in Australia and now lives with her husband, novelist Tony Horwitz, on Martha's Vineyard. This is her debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9780143115007
ISBN 10	0143115006
Title	People of the Book
Author	Geraldine Brooks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2008-12-30
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Winner of DUBLIN Literary Award., Winner of Library of Vermont Literary Award Finalist., Winner of Mary Shelly Award., Winner of New England Book Award for Fiction., Winner of School Library Journal Best Book of the Year., Short-listed for Harold U. Ribalow Prize., Nominated for Indies Choice Book Award.
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