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People of the Book
de Brooks, Geraldine
- Usado
- Bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Bueno/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 067001821X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018215
- Librería
-
Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Viking Press, 2008. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Flatsigned, no inscription. 5th printing. Unclipped dust jacket has light edge wear and small wrinkling along the top edge near the spine and at the corners. Jacket is in protective Brodart cover. Tight binding. Pages are clean, bright, unmarked, like new. A light smudge on the fore edge.
Sinopsis
The "complex and moving"( The New Yorker ) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war 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 fifteenth-century S pain. 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.
Reseñas
El Oct 25 2011, JanetW dijo:
This title was our book club's choice for October, and it didn't disappoint. GB is one of the most gifted novelists who is writing today. The book is actually two intertwined stories: the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript depicting the story of the Hebrews' escape from Egypt and used during a home service of the holiday of Passover. The other story is the efforts of a conservationist to trace the ownership of the Haggadah through the ages, while sorting out her own young life, including difficulties with an unloving mother and her comlicated feelings towards the Bosnian librarian who kept the manuscript safe during the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Many members in the book club remarked that the book was an eye-opener for them--they didn't realize how difficult it was to live as a Jew through the ages.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Belleyre Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1350
- Título
- People of the Book
- Autor
- Brooks, Geraldine
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good +
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Fifth printing
- ISBN 10
- 067001821X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018215
- Editorial
- Viking Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Catálogos del vendedor
- FICTION / Historical;
Términos de venta
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Belleyre Books
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flatsigned
- A flatsigned book is signed, and not inscribed, directly on a page of the book, rather than on a bookplate or with an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
