Ebook {Epub PDF} People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

 · are the springboard for Geraldine Brooks’s panoramic third novel, “People of the Book.” Brooks, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her previous novel, “March,” has Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book is a historical fiction novel about a book conservator named Dr. Hanna Heath and her intensive research on the history of the famous Sarajevo Haggadah. The book is an imagined history following the real clues found in the manuscript, and the novel jumps back and forth between Hanna’s findings and historical events that brought the book to its current home in the . People of the Book: A Novel Wonderful story! Not very deep or developed characters, and not an unknown format - the plot moves back and forth from the present to various historical times when a book, which is actually the protagonist of the story, plays an important role in peoples' lives/5(K).

Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks pp, Fourth Estate, £ Not long after the United States invaded Iraq, a memorable photograph appeared: an Iraqi man hurrying away from the Library of. Geraldine Brooks has, however, half-found and half-invented a swashbuckling book and, despite occasional quirks, woven a tale that's haunting and satisfying. Library Journal - Barbara Hoffert Each story is engrossing and deftly woven into the narrative, though the telling is sometimes facile or cloying.

The author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning March and Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks has made a name for herself as one of the foremost novelists of our era. In People of the Book —inspired by the true story of the Sarajevo Haggadah—she brilliantly interweaves an epic historical saga of persecution and survival with a powerful modern-day tale of private betrayals and international intrigue. People of the Book: A Novel Wonderful story! Not very deep or developed characters, and not an unknown format - the plot moves back and forth from the present to various historical times when a book, which is actually the protagonist of the story, plays an important role in peoples' lives. 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. (Pages ).