People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
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Author: Geraldine BrooksEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 067001821X
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Viking Adult
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Book Review: A well crafted modern love story and historical thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
A fictional account based on a true story of the rescue and restoration of an ancient illuminated Jewish book, which takes us from Australia to Bosnia and beyond. Dr Hanna Heath is called from Australia to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, through the course of the restoration she discovers a number of clues which provide hints about the books history. While the story unfolds in the present day, it is regularly interrupted with journeys into the past for fictional accounts of the books history based on Hanna's discoveries. It could be otherwise described as an ongoing novel interspersed with a number of short historical stories.
The story in the present revolves not just around the book, but also Hanna's strained relationship with her remote self-possessed mother and revelations about her family, and her growing love for Ozren, the Muslim librarian in Bosnia The historical stories include young resistant workers in the Second World War; a syphilitic restorer in Vienna; a gambling rabbi and a drunken Catholic priest in Venice; a resourceful Jewish girl in Barcelona; and a young and very talented oriental girl in Seville.
Hanna is a forthright and intelligent woman devoted to her work, her romantic involvement with Ozren is put to the test when she suspects subterfuge involving a forgery, and her relationship with her mother is tested when she discovers who her father was. The historical stories are at times violent, at times harrowing, often very moving, but always involving.
People of the Book is a complex and well crafted novel not just about an ancient book, but about a present day love story and a detailed gripping historical mystery; a book which is populated with many fascinating characters. It is a thoroughly involving story and at time heartrending; a very rewarding read.
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