false 44296438 1392534 4027239 0143115006 9780143115007 95 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/40/239/4027239-m-1255901599.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/40/239/4027239-s-1255901599.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4027239.People_of_the_Book_A_Novel 3.79 287 The “complex and moving”(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war

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. 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.]]> 211268 3.81 29006 6958 2008 1 16 false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:31:04 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 12:00:04 -0800 2009
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 ...more...]]>