People of the Book - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Brooks, Geraldine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067001821X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018215
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 067001821X . A most beautiful first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED directly on the title page by author and Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks; Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is the story about a book, beautiful, small, rare and very old, and the diverse people who cherished it over five centuries. Inside, Hanna Heath, a rare-book expert, discovers tiny artifacts that help her unlock the book's mysteries; 8vo; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
On Oct 25 2011, JanetW said:
This title was our book club's choice for October, and it didn't disappoint. GB is one of the most gifted novelists who is writing today. The book is actually two intertwined stories: the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript depicting the story of the Hebrews' escape from Egypt and used during a home service of the holiday of Passover. The other story is the efforts of a conservationist to trace the ownership of the Haggadah through the ages, while sorting out her own young life, including difficulties with an unloving mother and her comlicated feelings towards the Bosnian librarian who kept the manuscript safe during the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Many members in the book club remarked that the book was an eye-opener for them--they didn't realize how difficult it was to live as a Jew through the ages.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14230
- Title
- People of the Book - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Brooks, Geraldine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 067001821X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018215
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Books Librarians, Pulitzer Prize Author, Historical Novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books On Books;
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