People of the Book - A Novel (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	December 2008
Authors:	Geraldine Brooks
Dimensions:	195 x 127 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	372
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-311500-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-14-311500-6
Barcode:	9780143115007

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