People of the Book: A Novel
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Amazon Significant Seven, 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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| The Sarajevo Haggadah is a rare and ancient Jewish illuminated manuscript that has miraculously survived the ages and traveled throughout Europe during centuries of rampant anti-Semitism. Brooks turns a few minute factual details into a rich, carefully woven plot outlining her own history of the book. Hannah is summoned to Sarajevo to preserve this book and discovers clues about its past. The narrative then alternates between Hanna's quest to learn more details about the books survival and various periods throughout its tumultuous history. We witness its survival of various wars, the Inquisition, and its creation, moving backward through its existence from Sarajevo, to Vienna, Venice, and Spain. The People of the Book is a cleverly written novel intertwining lives throughout the continent and the centuries. Everyone whom the book comes in contact with is changed, whether by faith or war, and each character whom it touches is unforgettable. This novel is unique in its portrayal, not of an individual, but of an object that has defied history throughout the centuries. |
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