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Date Posted: 09:58:39 06/17/09 Wed
Author: Merrymags
Subject: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Hello to all. I have begun to read Ms. Brooks' recent publication, The People of the Book, published in 2008. Back in August of '08, SueP posted a question about this book, asking if anyone had yet read it...

I have read Brooks books, March and A Year of Wonders and enjoyed both. Her writing is seductive; I begin to read a paragraph and find myself coming up for air two chapters later. In People, Brooks smartly weaves fact and fiction in the telling of the amazing Sarejevo Haggadah, one of the world's most valuable books, and of the dramatic efforts by a Muslim curator to save the book from destruction or theft by the Nazis. The story is interlaced with the account of the efforts made to save it during the 1992 Bosnian War.

I recommend this book not only for Brooks' masterful storytelling but for the opportunity to learn, fictionalized or not, of the dedication by individuals around the world who strive to hold sacred the history of any people regardless of religion, ethnicity, or race.

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