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 enlarge | Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 332
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 067001821X
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670018215
ASIN: 067001821X
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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 Uneven and Anti-Catholic July 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved Brooks's Year of Wonders, but this book is only sometimes riveting, more often slow. Most unfortunately, this is the first anti-Catholic novel I've read since I tried PD James about 20 years ago. So it was amusing when the main character in People of the Book says on page 264, "Having read rather too many P. D. James novels, I'd decided . . . " Alas! You surely have, Ms Brooks! I'm not Catholic myself, but without balance this book teeters towards untruth.
 An excellent book July 20, 2008
This is one of the best books I have read in a long time. The author uses the real Sarajevo Haggadah as starting point for a fascinating fictional account of how it was so beautifully illustrated, how it came to be written, and how it was taken from place to place all over Europe over many centuries, and weaves that all together with the personal life of the book conservator who becomes involved with the Haggadah. The totally unexpected ending is amazing!
I liked the book so much that I bought the quite expensive taped version for a visually handicapped friend.
Fascinating! July 17, 2008
I couldn't stop reading this book. It was like a jig-saw puzzle with each piece just fitting perfectly. The history combined with the fiction made a powerful story. Highly recommended!
 vignettes in a book July 12, 2008
I am still in the middle of the book but so far am not particularly inspired. It is ok but not as wonderful as it was touted to be in all its reviews. Moves slow and has pretty stock characters. Would have liked a bit more depth in each vignette.
Dan Brown Lite July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Disappointing even for a fluff novel. The Wikipedia article on the Sarajevo Haggadah is a more interesting read. Historical fiction needs either a quality retelling of history or a quality story to get by, and this book offers neither. There's precious little known of the Sarajevo Haggadah's existence, so Brooks imagines a series of events throughout its existence interwoven with a bit of modern-day drama. But she apparently went for the Dan Brown approach by inventing physical details of the book itself, throwing off the balance between history and fiction. The pattern of revealing a detail and immediately following it with a chapter set in the past is too contrived and trite even for mindless beach reading. It's certainly interesting to wonder about this book's journey through the years, but Brooks' imagined history offers little to recommend it.
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