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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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People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- People of the Book
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Geraldine Brooks
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 449
- ISBN10
- 0143114549
- ISBN13
- 9780143114543
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, Religious Topics, Science, Life, Europe, Middle Ages, Jews, Historical Mystery, Australia, Jewish Literature, About Books, Vienna, Civil War, Venice, Australian Literature, History of Jews, Manuscripts, Christians, Restoration, Jewish Legends, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- People of the Book
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.