Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover | Pages: 372 pages Rating: 4.02 | 119212 Users | 11143 Reviews
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| Title | : | People of the Book |
| Author | : | Geraldine Brooks |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 |
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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.Itemize Books During People of the Book
| 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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Ratings: 4.02 From 119212 Users | 11143 ReviewsAssess Of Books People of the Book
This is a marvelous book. I really enjoyed this authors Year of Wonders and I think I liked this book at least as much. This is skillful and enthralling storytelling thats also thought provoking.This book is one of the most skillful renderings of a book that goes back and forth in time that Ive ever read. Ditto for the writing of a historical fiction account, especially one that has part of its history in the very recent past.This is a historical fiction story about the Sarajevo Haggadah. (AI try to avoid all things popular (e.g., Ive never seen Star Wars or Titanic) because I know, after all the hype, I can only be disappointed. When it comes to books, though, I feel obligated to read whats popular so I can participate somewhat intelligently in the conversation.That being said, although I hoped Geraldine Brooks People of the Book would live up to the buzz, I wasnt too surprised when it did not. The book is good, but it is not call-up-all-my-friends-(or readers)-and-recommend-it
What I do is me, for that I came...This is grand book. Impressive. Intriguing. Tragic. Beautiful. From beginning to the end.I don't usually like books on war situations but this book received so many good comments and ratings from Goodreads I decided to go for it. I did not regret it.Each chapter is a time jump, to and fro in time. And starts with a quote, like this one, page 329 in my book: A white hairSeville, 1480My eyes seep sorrow; water skins with holes- Abid bin al-AbrasPart of a review
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,
5★ A new favourite! I love it when old stories sound right for their time, and Geraldine Brooksdoes that so well. This novel was inspired by the discovery of the real Sarajevo Haggadah, a book more than 700 years old, so Brooks had a lot of ground to cover and a lot of voices to invent.Her central character (Hanna Heath, a rare book expert) says about herself: By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of the people who made the book. I can figure out who
I could have sworn I wrote a review. I read this book the first week it was released....I LOVED IT!!!
From 2011-2013 I belonged to a phenomenal book club at a library in Belvidere Illinois. The Director of the Library led the group and picked the books. I have never been happy in any book club I've tried since then. I loved every book she picked and People of the Book was one of them. It's the story of a Hanna who is a book expert who is called in to analyze and conserve a very rare book of Jewish history called the Sarajevo Haggadah. People of the Book is based on a true story. This book is
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