The release date for the English version of 'People of the Book' by
Geraldine Brooks is Oct 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks' "complex and moving" (The New Yorker) book traces the journey of a rare manuscript through decades of conflict and banishment.
"People of the Book" is a book of vast historical grandeur and personal emotional intensity by a respected and beloved author, inspired by a real tale.
This ambitious and thrilling book, described as "a tour de force" by the San Francisco Chronicle, follows the torturous voyage of the renowned Sarajevo Haggadah, a gorgeously illustrated Hebrew text produced in fifteenth-century Spain.
Hanna Heath, an Australian specialist in rare books, is tasked with conserving a priceless work. As she looks through the ancient binding, she finds tiny artifacts like a piece of a butterfly wing, wine stains, salt crystals, and a white hair. These artifacts only serve to reveal the book's hidden mysteries and draw Hanna into the world of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.