March Book Group!
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Mar 1, 2008, 11:26:03 AM3/1/08
to Imago Book Group
Hey everybody!
We have a new book picked out for March- switching it up a bit and
moving into the historical fiction genre! People of the Book, by
Geraldine Brooks, (publisher's comments below!) will be discussed at
Linda's house, 403 NE 56th Ave, Portland 97214 on Sunday 30th March at
2:30pm.
Can't wait to see what you all think!
Happy reading,
Viv
Publisher Comments:
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a
rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the
job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo
Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian
war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish
volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic
loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny
artifacts in its ancient binding -- an insect wing fragment, wine
stains, salt crystals, a white hair -- she begins to unlock the book's
mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and
atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back
to its creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it
from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the
book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-
Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from
burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his
family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in
1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is
finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into
the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her
experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come
to love.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of
sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an
ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author."
We have a new book picked out for March- switching it up a bit and
moving into the historical fiction genre! People of the Book, by
Geraldine Brooks, (publisher's comments below!) will be discussed at
Linda's house, 403 NE 56th Ave, Portland 97214 on Sunday 30th March at
2:30pm.
Can't wait to see what you all think!
Happy reading,
Viv
Publisher Comments:
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a
rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the
job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo
Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian
war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish
volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic
loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny
artifacts in its ancient binding -- an insect wing fragment, wine
stains, salt crystals, a white hair -- she begins to unlock the book's
mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and
atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back
to its creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it
from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the
book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-
Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from
burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his
family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in
1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is
finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into
the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her
experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come
to love.
Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of
sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an
ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author."
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