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Title	:	People of the Book
Author	:	Geraldine Brooks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2008 by Viking Books (first published January 2008)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Mystery. Book Club. Literature. Jewish

People of the Book Hardcover | Pages: 372 pages

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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 and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation.

In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah’s extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna’s investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

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Original Title:	People of the Book
ISBN:	067001821X
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hanna Heath, Ozren Karaman, Serif Kamal, Stela Kamal, Amitai Yomtov, Werner Heinrich, Razmus Kanaha, Dr. Franz Hirschfeldt, Florien Mittl, Giovanni Domenico Vistorini, Judah Aryeh, Sarah Heath, David Ben Shoushan, Ruth Ben Shoushan, Joseph Ben Shoushan, Reuben Ben Shoushan, Rosa del Salvador, Zahra bint Ibrahim al-Tarek, Aaron Sharansky
Setting:	Sarajevo,1996(Bosnia and Herzegovina) Sarajevo,1940(Bosnia and Herzegovina) Bosnia and Herzegovina
Literary Awards:	National Jewish Book Award Nominee (2008), Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction (2009), Prime Minister's
Literary Awards:	Nominee for Fiction (2009), Barbara Jefferis Award Nominee (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2008) Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work (2009), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2010)

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Geraldine Brooks has a way of weaving through historical moments of cogent settings, to make powerful, real-life stories vivid through narrative. Most times I find her narrative peculiar and alluring, like the close narration in March, for example. In Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, she had me immersed in style and dialect and of the three novels of hers I've read so far, she managed to keep me invested in the setting and "situation"(i.e. war). Bosnia was a focus in this book, and it

There's nothing bad about this but there's nothing exciting about it either. I'd describe it as assembly line fiction. A novel that is designed to be a crowd pleaser. It never strays from formulaic commercial boundaries. The story is well-plotted and researched. The prose is professional but never inspired. The characters are on the bland side, each one with a predictable problematical relationship. The author has won the Pulitzer prize so I was expecting something much braver and more literary.

This is an awful book.I expected great things from Brooks - March is a book I treasure - but this novel is a third-rate Da Vinci code, written with about the same amount of skill.The premise is captivating - a 500-year-old haggadah is found in Sarajevo in 1996, and the novel sets out to explore the book's journey across Europe in those intervening years. Along the way, the haggadah acts as an entry point into the tumult, crisis, and unspeakable violence experienced by Jewish communities across



Multiple timeline historical fiction based upon the Sarajevo Haggadah, an elaborately illustrated ancient Judaic text that had been saved in the past by two Muslims and a Catholic priest. It is unusual in featuring artwork, which was not common in Jewish texts of the time period. The modern story follows Australian book conservator Hanna Heath who, in 1996, is called upon to evaluate and restore the book. During the evaluation, she finds small pieces of evidence of the books 500-year history.

This is a sweeping work of historical fiction, with characters starting in Sarajevo in 1996 and then slowly going back 500 years into the past. The story is framed around Hanna, a rare book expert from Australia who is called in to analyze a precious Jewish text that was recovered during the Bosnian war. As Hanna studies the ancient book, she finds clues about its history, such as wine stains, a white hair, and part of an insect's wing. Each chapter takes the reader farther back in time, and we

Rating: 3* of fiveThis is the very first book about books I've ever read that left me hating people more than when I started it.Hanna, what a terrible waste of a person. Sarah, her mother, my GOD what a cold, stoney bas-relief of a human being she was. Orzen, Werner, yechptui on all of 'em and the parts set in the past...! The Nazis, well, it's shootin' tuna in a 55-gallon oil drum (aka the Gulf of Mexico) to hate THEM, but the collaborators! On and on, back through the Western World's horrible,