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DescriptionMake this your next book club selection and everyone saves. 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. About the AuthorGeraldine Brooks is the author of Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, stationed in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. END Praise for People of the Book…"Less flash and more substance than The Da Vinci Code . . . The stories of the Sarajevo Haggadah, both factual and fictional, are stirring testaments to the people of many faiths who risked all to save this priceless work." Island Bookstore @ Historic Corolla Village 1130 Corolla Village Road Corolla, NC 27927 - 252.453.2292 Island Bookstore @ Scarborough Faire Shoppes 1170 Duck Road Duck, NC 27949 - 252.261.8981 Island Bookstore @ MP 4.6 on the By-Pass 3712 N. Croatan Hwy Kitty Hawk, NC 27949 - 252.255.5590 islandbksobx@yahoo.com - fax: 866.442.2176 |
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