Genre: Audio, Literature, Historical, Drama, Mysteryĭisclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. 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. 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 Spain. 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. The “complex and moving”(“The New Yorker”) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. With this fictional novel People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks conveys her own passionate interest in the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah.
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