![]() ![]() Along with the book she also meets its savior, a Muslim librarian named Karaman. ![]() In the present, we follow the resolutely independent Hanna through her thrilling first encounter with the beautifully illustrated codex and her discovery of the tiny signs-a white hair, an insect wing, missing clasps, a drop of salt, a wine stain-that will help her to discover its provenance. ![]() Missing documents and art works (as Dan Brown and Lev Grossman, among others, have demonstrated) are endlessly appealing, and from this inviting premise Brooks spins her story in two directions. , which disappeared during the siege in 1992, has been found, and Hanna has been invited by the U.N. Late one night in the city of Sydney, Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, gets a phone call. , Brooks allows both her native land and current events to play a larger role while still continuing to mine the historical material that speaks so ardently to her imagination. Now in her dazzling new novel, People of the Book , which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a journalist. ![]() Reading Geraldine Brooks's remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders ![]()
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