People of the book

R$ 124,90

Sinopse

The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and warInspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force"by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century S pain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rarbooks expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding-an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.

Participantes

Autor: Geraldine Brooks

Autor

GERALDINE BROOKS

Geraldine Brooks, vencedora do Prêmio Pulitzer de ficção em 2005, é autora de romances e de títulos de não ficção. Nascida e criada na Austrália, ela vive em Martha’s Vineyard, nos Estados Unidos, com o marido, o também escritor Tony Horwitz, e os dois filhos.