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I have not made it through very many books in 2022 but those that I have read have been extremely good. Today I finished listening to an audio book, People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks. This is the fourth book by Geraldine Brooks I have enjoyed and she will be an author I will often return to in the future. People of the Book is a historical novel. While fiction, it is based on a true story. The novel is the story a Jewish prayer book that was created in the 1400s. The story of its creation is woven in with the story of its survival of the Spanish Inquisition in the 1600s, its survival of centuries of antisemitism including the later 1800s, its survival during the 1940s and Nazi Germany, and it's more recent survival of the Bosnian War in the early 1990s. Each time the book was saved from the book burnings it was saved by a person and the creation of the book originally involved an artist and a scribe. The people of the book are these people and those around them. The novel also includes the story of a researcher looking for the stories that the book tells of every where it has been. The techniques used to find these answers are fascinating. The answers are teased out within the stories. This novel is excellent. It is a mystery story. It is a historical novel. It is multiple love stories. And it is a book that teaches about historical research. I highly recommend it. Please click on the book title and author's name above to follow links to more information. And enjoy the video that follows.
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