People of the Book

People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks


A novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book – to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the book.As meticulously researched as all of Brooks’s previous work, ‘People of the Book’ is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.









People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks









London, New York, Toronto, Sydney and New Delhi




Dedication (#ulink_7f6918a6-1c47-540c-81d4-27412fdc0ffd)


For the librarians




Epigraph (#ulink_2ac79b63-02e0-58db-997a-a899ad6242de)


There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

– Heinrich Heine




Table of Contents


Title Page (#uac31ec6a-a31e-5d3e-9d97-831ccb38cf95)

Dedication (#u1907fe25-fa82-59b9-bf00-38cf3b2aefe2)

Epigraph

Maps (#u763c592a-9a6d-5701-a530-d8dc022d8483)

Hanna Sarajevo, Spring 1996 (#ud94f62c9-34f7-54ff-89e8-349705b0c1a0)

An Insect’s Wing Sarajevo, 1940 (#ucb049d8e-0118-5cbd-936e-16728aa5d08a)

Hanna Vienna, Spring 1996 (#ua5d490b4-aea8-5a00-9f29-c9062ee12b18)

Feathers and a Rose Vienna, 1894 (#ua076386a-fddb-5e00-8d76-d10fc9b997c4)

Hanna Vienna, Spring 1996 (#ue85f5de4-f6bc-56d1-b71a-d2c049494c47)

Wine Stains Venice, 1609 (#u7179ba2f-9e9e-5d86-a503-12cc0162a280)

Hanna Boston, Spring 1996 (#u4539ca7a-1873-57d0-8ddb-c87e10d03639)

Saltwater Tarragona, 1492 (#ua8b2d549-6166-512f-87b1-b945fa442958)

Hanna London, Spring 1996 (#uddbc890e-fc97-5c6f-a6d1-cbb3e15e19e8)

A White Hair Seville, 1480 (#u76bb7950-71d8-5ed1-a83b-67ba44971da1)

Hanna Sarajevo, Spring 1996 (#ubb048dab-7064-592f-b213-39836a8eba01)

Lola Jerusalem, 2002 (#u2bf02f81-5fd6-55da-b415-62d43450da09)

Hanna Arnhem Land, Gunumeleng, 2002 (#u9eeeb61b-e9a0-50a9-b30d-07b4e49e0668)

Afterword (#u03b09b0a-94a3-5564-b7df-5c3b031c8cc1)

P.S. (#u16861a6f-e258-5f30-a458-b0eb7ba61e81)

About the author (#u69241da2-6916-5ad7-b25d-24a176924707)

Nothing to Prove: (#u5e08f2fc-b6aa-5e2c-9221-41247223f79e)

LIFE at a Glance (#u32301e1c-69f2-5892-b65f-c6de4b2d97cb)

Top Ten Favourite Books (#u2d7a38c4-0f24-51bf-a197-8e0f2d248212)

About the book (#u3581eb9c-4e43-5e61-9be1-86441bf2bb59)

Uninvited Guests (#ub45ea991-e9df-5208-a1c6-986aa5a33ef1)

Read on (#ue1983ca6-5c67-5be9-ab0d-d62d9ee8aaf9)

Have You Read? (#u839db136-3c3a-57ea-ab3d-54500d4449ab)

If You Liked This, You Might Like… (#u0ce30b1a-06c1-5208-bfbd-b2240c353858)

Find Out More (#uc9804aed-1639-50a8-a003-2f9927a66726)

About the Author (#uda6b4136-68ee-58ea-81a9-bd63fb2c15e4)

Praise (#u50fa8f30-f099-5374-bbf6-a7a5f9be278d)

By the same Author (#uc88c9a74-2f71-5898-b632-9f68fb6d4f7a)

Copyright (#uf735c1c0-e830-5d41-9799-d12a43f230f6)

About the Publisher (#u11679188-3be0-51e4-8dd4-662e1eeaf71c)




Maps (#ulink_6d71da49-9869-50a9-8e4b-e5113d8350ef)










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People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

Тип: электронная книга

Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература

Язык: на английском языке

Издательство: HarperCollins

Дата публикации: 16.04.2024

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О книге: A novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book – to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah’s orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the book.As meticulously researched as all of Brooks’s previous work, ‘People of the Book’ is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.

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