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| Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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 | Sydenham Branch | Fiction Brook | On loan until: 13/Jun/25 | 2 |
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| Title Statement | People of the book: a novel / Geraldine Brooks. |
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| Author | Brooks, Geraldine |
| Publication | New York: Penguin,2008. |
| Extent of Item | 372, 9, 12 pages |
| ISBN | 9780143115007 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr00621280 |
| Summary | A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book's history. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Judaism--Fiction--Manuscripts |
| Manuscripts, Hebrew--Fiction | |
| Books--Fiction--Conservation and restoration | |
| By Location | Bosnia and Hercegovina--Fiction |
| Australia--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
