
People of the Book
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Edwina Wren
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By:
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Geraldine Brooks
DUBLIN Literary Award winner
Short-listed, Harold U. Ribalow Prize
Indies Choice Book Award nominee
Library of Vermont Literary Award Finalist
Mary Shelly Award winner
Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love.
Inspired 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 15th-century Spain.
When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book 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.
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Critic reviews
“There’s romance between Brooks and the world, and her writing is as full of heart and curiosity as it is intelligence and judgement.”—The Boston Globe
“Intelligent, thoughtful, gracefully written, and original . . . Brooks tells a believable and engaging story.”—The Washington Post
“Intense, gripping . . . People of the Book, like her Pulitzer Prize-winning previous novel March, is a tour de force that delivers a reverberating lesson gleaned from history. . . . It’s a brilliant, innately suspenseful structure, and one that allows Brooks to show off her remarkable aptitude for assimilating research and conveying a wide range of settings. Also on full display is her keen sense of dramatic pacing.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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Down with accents
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Good book, weak reader
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Stunning
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People of the Book
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truly wonderful
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Brooks does not shy away from man’s inhumanity to man in any of her books. In this one, it was kind of depressing because, by going backwards in history, the inhumanity was worse with each story. it kind of leaves you with a “well, being a Jew really sucks” feeling. Everyone are all so depressed and that is not my experience married into a family of Israelis.
The burden on the narrator is very great because there are so many different accents and this narrator was not up to the challenge. First of all, the Israeli character pronounces the book ha-GAH-dah. That is an Americanism. Israelis pronounce it ha-gee-DAH and it is very jarring, when the word is used so frequently, to hear such a big mistake. Her Israeli accent is generally pretty bad and Zara, who is a Moor, has an Australian accent.
So overall, it was interesting. i know little about Bosnia and I appreciated historical fiction of that place. But some of the errors in judgment and narrating were too great for me to really enjoy it.
Narrator over her head - not my favorite Brooks
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Amazing!
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Liked it
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Would you consider the audio edition of People of the Book to be better than the print version?
No! the narrator was terrible.What was one of the most memorable moments of People of the Book?
the story is intriguing.How could the performance have been better?
the attempt at accents failed miserablyWho was the most memorable character of People of the Book and why?
the protagonistAny additional comments?
yes, someone should have told the narrator to simply read the bookthe narrator almost killed the story!
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wonderful performance, great historical context.
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