I had read this book a few years ago and had enjoyed it, but wasn't overly impressed. However, my bookclub is discussing it this week and I decided to give it a quick listen to refresh my memory. Maybe I was in a different frame of mind because I was listening to it on vacation, or it took reading...
I very much enjoyed this book for being a book about a book. I liked the framing device of a book conservator discovering details and clues in a manuscript, and then jumping to the 'actual' story of "what happened." However, I found the 'modern' details to be a peculiar mix of overwrought and dull.....
This book came highly recommended and certainly had a great deal to recommend it. I loved meeting all the characters and the stories revolving around the ancient manuscript. This was another book in a series for me that started off thrilling and then petered out a bit. I loved certain stories more t...
I wanted to love this book but I was not engaged with the main protagonist. I liked the other stories but I skimmed the chapters with Hanna. Still trying to decide between a 2 1/2 and a 3 *.
A sacred jewish book, a Hagaddah, is being restored and it contains minute clues to its history. A dessicated butterfly wing, a short cats hair that had been used in a brush to paint the illuminated manuscript, salt crystals from splashed drops from the sea. Each is linked with a back story, going...
What an intriguing little read this book was! I think Geraldine Brooks is fast becoming one of my favorite authors! This was a remarkable story about the history of the priceless medieval Jewish prayer book, the Sarajevo Haggadah. Jumping back and forth in time and giving us beautiful and painful in...
I finished this book (The People of the Book) a few months ago and have learned so much about a priceless book called the Sarajevo Haggadah, a book that was made before the Spanish Inquisition. The survival of the Sarajevo Haggadah through that event in history is incredible in itself and the autho...
Hannah Heath, a rare book expert is called to Sarajevo in 1996 to take a look at the Haggadah, and illuminated Jewish religious volume. While restoring the book she discovers and insect wing, a wine stain, salt crystals and a single white hair. Her investigation into these clues leads the reader t...
People of the Book is a lovely story by Geraldine Brooks, about the journey of a rare illustrated Jewish book, the Sarajevo Haggadah. The book lays out the story from the eyes of Dr. Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, and intersperses the history & journey of the book itself, in alternating chapt...
This book is a combination of contemporary and historical fictions. Hannah Heath, a book conservationist, was asked to work on the Sarajevo Haggadah, a book which has been lost for many years. The contemporary part of of the book follows Hannah in her work, investigating and trying to construct th...
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