The factual roots of her story are as gripping as the specific story she relates. They actually felt the shared humanity and the shared intellectual history that this book represented.” Very ugly things might be happening around it, but the book was at the center of some really beautiful acts of courage, outreach by people who would not be taken in by this ideology that ‘The Other’ is despicable.
We know of two rescues of this Hebrew book by Muslim hands and then once by a Catholic priest in Venice in 1609. “The truth that ( People of the Book) testifies to is that the Haggadah always finds its protectors. It was missing from the Bosnian National Library and it was at risk. It’s the Hebrew manuscript from fourteenth century Spain. “I was in Sarajavo as a newspaper reporter and heard about this famous manuscript, the Sarajevo Haggadah. Brooks drew on her experience as The Wall Street Journal correspondent in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East writing People of the Book.
Having won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with March, Ms. An enduring invention - the book - is as powerful as the story within it in the hands of reporter-turned-novelist Geraldine Brooks, who champions books themselves as “fantastic”.
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