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.
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People of the Book: A Novel
By: Geraldine Brooks
ISBN-10: 0143115006
ISBN-13 : 978-0143115007
Publisher : Penguin Books; Reprint edition (December 30, 2008)
Language : English
Paperback: 372 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 5.05 x 0.66 x 7.73 inches
Item Weight : 9.3 ounces
$10.79 $8.63
SKU9780143115007
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