People of the Book A Novel

Name: People of the Book A Novel
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ISBN: 9780143115007

ISBN-10: 0143115006

ISBN-13: 9780143115007

Edition: N/A

Authors: Geraldine Brooks

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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 Bookis 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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.05" wide x 7.72" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Geraldine Brooks is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, "Nine Parts of Desire" and "Foreign Correspondence." A former war correspondent, her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.