The Bismarck State College Library hosts its second session of BookTalk Sunday, Feb. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the library.
Kimberly Crowley, BSC assistant professor of English, leads discussion of "People of the Book" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks.
Inspired by a true story, "People of the Book" focuses on a single Hebrew text of traditional Jewish literature called the "Sarajevo Haggadah." It is a beautifully illumined manuscript created in Spain during the 14th century that continues to be shrouded in mystery today.
The fictional story involves Hanna Heath, a rare book expert doing conservation work on the priceless "Sarajevo Haggadah," who finds a series of tiny artifacts in the ancient binding. Brooks imagines the book's journey through five centuries and shows how it survives through the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the Inquisition in Italy, WWII, and the bombings in Sarajevo during the 1992-95 war.
"People of the Book" earned the Literary Fiction Book of the Year award from the Australian Publishers Association in 2008, its publication year. Brooks was Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and began a freelance writing career in 1994. She is recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award (2010). Her book, "March," won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
BookTalk presents the last selection in the "Light a Fire Within" series March 2. Discussion is open to all. For more information, call 224-5450 or email BSC.Library@bismarckstate.edu.
BookTalk at BSC is funded by the BSC Library and a grant from the BSC Foundation.
About Bismarck State College
Bismarck State College, an innovative community college in Bismarck, N.D., offers high quality education, workforce training, and enrichment programs reaching local and global communities.
Kimberly Crowley, BSC assistant professor of English, leads discussion of "People of the Book" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks.
Inspired by a true story, "People of the Book" focuses on a single Hebrew text of traditional Jewish literature called the "Sarajevo Haggadah." It is a beautifully illumined manuscript created in Spain during the 14th century that continues to be shrouded in mystery today.
The fictional story involves Hanna Heath, a rare book expert doing conservation work on the priceless "Sarajevo Haggadah," who finds a series of tiny artifacts in the ancient binding. Brooks imagines the book's journey through five centuries and shows how it survives through the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the Inquisition in Italy, WWII, and the bombings in Sarajevo during the 1992-95 war.
"People of the Book" earned the Literary Fiction Book of the Year award from the Australian Publishers Association in 2008, its publication year. Brooks was Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and began a freelance writing career in 1994. She is recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award (2010). Her book, "March," won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
BookTalk presents the last selection in the "Light a Fire Within" series March 2. Discussion is open to all. For more information, call 224-5450 or email BSC.Library@bismarckstate.edu.
BookTalk at BSC is funded by the BSC Library and a grant from the BSC Foundation.
About Bismarck State College
Bismarck State College, an innovative community college in Bismarck, N.D., offers high quality education, workforce training, and enrichment programs reaching local and global communities.