People Of the Book
by Brooks, Geraldine
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.
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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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New York: Viking Press, 2008. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Flatsigned, no inscription. 5th printing. Unclipped dust jacket has light edge wear and small wrinkling along the top edge near the spine and at the corners. Jacket is in protective Brodart cover. Tight binding. Pages are clean, bright,… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Viking Press, 2008. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine COLLECTIBLE SIGNED book. The novel's main character, a plucky Australian named Hanna Heath, is summoned to Sarajevo by the United Nations in 1996. She is invited to document the Sarajevo Haggadah, a centuries-old illuminated manuscript of the text that accompanies the Jewish Passover Seder,… Read more about this item Item Price
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sydney, Australia: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover, reprint, 538gms, 390 pages. People of the Book is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. There is a small tear… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 067001821X . A nice first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Inspired by a true story, this is the tale about a book -- beautiful, small, rare and very old -- and the diverse people who cherished it over five… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Penguin Books, 2008. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x7. First printing. Edge wear. 2008 Trade Paperback. 372, 9 pp. "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… Read more about this item Item Price
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HarperCollins Publishers Australia. Good. Paperback. 2009. 465 pages. Cover worn<br>As meticulously researched as all of Bro oks' previous work, People of the Book is a gripping and moving n ovel about war, art, love and survival. When Hanna Heath gets a c all in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a preciou s medieval manuscript that… Read more about this item Item Price
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An advance proof. Trade paperback. Clean and unmarked, other than the letters "ADV" in light blue highlighter on the page ends, all three surfaces. A book preserver is tasked with a very special book in Sarajevo. She then begins finding little artifacts in the binding and ends up researching the history of the book. Item Price
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