People of the Book: A Novel
- ISBN13: 9780143115007
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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.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, has turned the intriguing but sparely detailed history of this precious volume into an emotionally rich, thrilling fictionalization that retraces its turbulent journey. In the hands of Hanna Heath, an impassioned rare-book expert restoring the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, it yields clues to its guardians and whereabouts: an insect wing, a wine stain, salt crystals, and a white hair. While readers experience crucial moments in the book’s history through a series of fascinating, fleshed-out short stories, Hanna pursues its secrets scientifically, and finds that some interests will still risk everything in the name of protecting this treasure. A complex love story, thrilling mystery, vivid history lesson, and celebration of the enduring power of ideas, People of the Book will surely be hailed as one of the best of 2008. –Mari Malcolm
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Comments (5)
July 31st, 2010 at 20:59
I was an enthusiastic hardcover buyer of this book when it hit the shelves.
I got through the book to see how she resolved her “issues.”
Every depiction of her Jewish characters are full of negative Jewish stereotypes.
I am astonished her publishers didn’t see her book as the work of an anti-semitic rant. JUST HATEFUL!!!
This book reminded me why I prefer biographies!
Rating: 1 / 5
July 31st, 2010 at 22:46
I had never heard of this writer or the book, so I took a step in faith and bought the book. Geraldine Brooks did a great job writing this book and following the Jewish book..This book is the CENTERIES OLD jEWISH BOOK OF RULES AND REVEARED IN jEWISH SOCIETY. tHE STORY GOES ALL OVER THE WORLD FOLLOWING THIS BOOK AND PEOPLE WHO HAD TOUCHED IT. iT COMES IN FOR REPAIR AND THE YOUNG GIRL DOES A WHOLE History OF ITS WHEREABOUTS AND PEOPLE. iT APPEARED TO MANY DIfFERENT DENOMINATIONS AND WAS A BIT RUFFLED WHEN THE YOUNG GIRL IN bOSTON GOT IT. iT WAS SAved MANY TIMES FROM EXTINTION FIRST FROM THE gERMAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE ORDERED TO BURN THE CONTENTS OF jEWISH LIBRARIES. wORTH READING AS IN THE END IT WAS A MYSTERY. sOMETIMES WORDY, BUT NEVERTHE LESS a GOOD READ.
Rating: 3 / 5
August 1st, 2010 at 00:27
I HEARD IT GOT GOOD REVIEWS.
CHARACTERS ARE TWO DIMENSIONAL AND NOT BELIEVABLE.
AFTER TRYING FOR 200 PAGES, I ASKED MYSELF WHY AND GAVE UP.
HAD POTENTIAL BUT KEPT LOOSING IT.
Rating: 5 / 5
August 1st, 2010 at 00:43
This book revolves around a rare book, the Sarajevo Haggadah. The author takes for granted the reader knows the magnitude of this book and its meaning. No suspense or awe is built up and much is lost because of it’s not. There are several instances where the reader is alienated and other things are taken for granted. Done in a different order and with it built up this might have been good. My interest waned quickly. In fact, I was downright bored. It’s far from a thrill ride.
Rating: 2 / 5
August 1st, 2010 at 03:25
It is hard to review a purchase that I still haven’t received. I ordered this book to participate in a book club at work. I was lucky that my local library had a copy for me to read. This is the longest it has ever taken anything to come in from an Amazon purchase. Other than that…I did enjoy the story itself.
Rating: 1 / 5
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