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Shortlisted for the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a ...Show synopsisShortlisted for the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards When Hanna Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript that has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of war-torn Sarajevo she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring the Sarajevo Haggadah -- a Jewish prayer book -- to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hanna's orderly life including her encounter with Ozren Karamen the young librarian who risked his life to save the book. As meticulously researched as all of Brooks' previous work People of the Book is a gripping and moving novel about war art love and survival. 'an imaginative tour de force' Good Weekend 'intelligent thoughtful gracefully written and original' Washington Post 'a fearless and engaging writer' Courier-MailHide synopsis
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Description:New. The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer...New. The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and warInspired 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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The history is well-researched and excellent. The romantic aspects of the plot a bit sappy. Brooks' background as a journalist usually stands her in good stead. Liked other books of hers better. My book group read it and were pretty well in accord about this book.
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This book is about the people, who possibly illuminated, wrote and protected the Sarajevo Haggadah, through its history. Believed to have been written it 15th century Spain, it now resides in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.
The story starts with a rare book expert Hanna ...
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i really enjoyed this book. frequently we read the same stories over and over again. this was a historical fiction presented in a new way and what might have been. the story was well crafted and hard to put down
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"People of the Book" is an absolutely engrossing mystery in the style of "The Red Violin." In 1996, a restorer of rare and ancient manuscripts is given the chance to restore the beautiful illuminated haggadah of Sarajevo. The jewish text has been through a lot, and only some of its history is known ...
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