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People of the Book
by Brooks, Geraldine
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+/ none it's a paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143115006
- ISBN 13
- 9780143115007
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About This Item
gift able black cover is still glossy interior unmarked – spine not creased small amount of minutia – edge wear on its edges – clean copy – Pulitzer prize-winning author –as mall crease front cover bottomcover art and design Jaya Miceli- maps/decorative art Laura Hartman Maestro – Hebrew calligraphy JS Greenspan – designed by Francesca Belanger -- People of the Book- novel of -historical grandeur & intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed & beloved author. C-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.-see pictures maybe this will do it! I try to note all defects, -I have-good description-- All photos shown are actual pictures no stock images. What you see is what you will receive. I photograph hand enter & research every book listed,no scanner no generic catch phrase description.Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles I carefully pack your book-, your books wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit.
oversize paperback – second printing 2008–-People of the Book: A Novel - Geraldine Brooks -Pub- Penguin Books, 2008 -0143115006, 9780143115007 -381 pages - Fiction ' Literary – suspense- 2962 BMK 25People of the Book PB
oversize paperback – second printing 2008–-People of the Book: A Novel - Geraldine Brooks -Pub- Penguin Books, 2008 -0143115006, 9780143115007 -381 pages - Fiction ' Literary – suspense- 2962 BMK 25People of the Book PB
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
On Oct 25 2011, JanetW said:
This title was our book club's choice for October, and it didn't disappoint. GB is one of the most gifted novelists who is writing today. The book is actually two intertwined stories: the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript depicting the story of the Hebrews' escape from Egypt and used during a home service of the holiday of Passover. The other story is the efforts of a conservationist to trace the ownership of the Haggadah through the ages, while sorting out her own young life, including difficulties with an unloving mother and her comlicated feelings towards the Bosnian librarian who kept the manuscript safe during the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Many members in the book club remarked that the book was an eye-opener for them--they didn't realize how difficult it was to live as a Jew through the ages.
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- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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- Title
- People of the Book
- Author
- Brooks, Geraldine
- Illustrator
- cover art and design Jaya Miceli- maps/decorative art Laura Hartman Maestro – Hebrew calligraphy JS Greenspan – desi
- Format/Binding
- Glued spine cover glossy
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none it's a paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 8 second printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143115006
- ISBN 13
- 9780143115007
- Publisher
- Penguin (non-classics)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 200 eeight
- Keywords
- -People of the Book: A Novel - Geraldine Brooks -Pub- Penguin Books, 2008 -0143115006, 9780143115007 -381 pages - Fiction › Literary – suspense Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City
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