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Brooks Geraldine
Penguin Books
9780007177424
2008
400
350
paperback
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People Of The Book
Brooks Geraldine
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a
rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is
offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo
Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war.
Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to
be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her
work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect
wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock
the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and
atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its
creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to
protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna,
the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising
anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from
burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family
destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason
for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation
unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and
ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and
the man she has come to love.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and
intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed
and beloved author.
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a
rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is
offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo
Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war.
Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to
be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her
work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect
wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock
the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and
atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its
creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to
protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna,
the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising
anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from
burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family
destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason
for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation
unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and
ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and
the man she has come to love.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and
intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed
and beloved author.
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