People of the Book - Softcover

Brooks, Geraldine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114549 ISBN 13: 9780143114543

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2008

Synopsis

464pages. poche. Broché.

About this title

Review:

"Sensuous and fascinating." (The Times)

"Brooks is too good a novelist to belabor her political messages, but her depiction of the Haggadah bringing together Jews, Christians and Muslims could not be more timely. Her gift for storytelling, happily, is timeless." (Publishers Weekly)

"Brooks expertly guides us to the conclusion that the world is made up of only two types of people: those who would destroy books and those who would give their lives to save them. This illuminating novel, like its predecessor, is well worthy of both Pulitzer and prime-time approbation." (The Independent on Sunday)

Review:

'The epic themes of love and war are her preferred canvas and here she sets up multiple narrative strands to tell the turbulent story of this Haggadah. Anti-Semitism is the momentum propelling the book's extraordinary journey forwards and Brooks evokes her various fraught historical-religious conflicts vividly.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143114549
• ISBN 13: 9780143114543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464