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Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This novel is a weaving of lives and events around a ancient Hebrew book: the Sarajevo Haggadah. The novel moves between the present, where Dr Hanna Heath is researching and restoring the Sarajevo Haggadah, and events and people specific to the creation and journey of the manuscript in the past. Along the way, the reader learns something of the creation of such manuscripts and of their…

Geraldine Brooks: Year of Wonders

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England…

Geraldine Brooks: Year of Wonders

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the mostextraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshirevillage and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, electedto quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.