Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”
People of the Book follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, it is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. The ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain.
When it falls to Australian rare book expert Hanna Heath to conserve the priceless work, the tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—a butterfly wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock the book’s deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.
Read Alikes for People of the Book: The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish; The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley; The Red Tent by Anita Diamant; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe; The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”
People of the Book follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, it is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. The ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain.
When it falls to Australian rare book expert Hanna Heath to conserve the priceless work, the tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—a butterfly wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock the book’s deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.
Read Alikes for People of the Book: The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish; The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley; The Red Tent by Anita Diamant; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe; The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
ISBN 978-0-670-01821-5
Geraldine Brooks
2008
