Geraldine Brooks – The People of the Book

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David speaks with Geraldine Brooks about her work, The People of the Book. In this work Brooks, a former New York Times columnist, creates a fictional narrative around the true life drama of a mysterious missing Hebrew Haggadah pilfered from Sarajevo. The Haggadah is the prayer book used by Jews on Passover to tell the story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt.

Original Air Date: 3/4/08

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