The Destruction of Culture of the Other

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	• People of the Book: A Novel Geraldine Brooks Viking Adult, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 127 reviews view larger image
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Ms. Brooks certainly know how to tell a story and to keep the reader in polite but nagging tension.
This biography of a book is a wonderful narrative, a story of passion and wonder. A rare case of history told as a novel (there is too much of this kind floating around, but rare exception do happen)where the moral is less than obvious, the narrative riveting and extremely well constructed, so that the Italian principle of "if not true is it well made up" not only applies, but is surpassed..

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The Destruction of Culture of the Other

This book was fascinating to read and it expanded my horizons which is one of the things I treasure in a book. It did take some work to keep track of what was going on and when as it jumped back and forth. Brooks's story of the Sarajevo Haggadah's journey, both true and imagined, illustrates the power culture, art and literature have on people of the world. Some will give their lives to protect it while others are intent on destroying the culture of the "other", knowing what power it has.

"It would be something, to be back there, when the haggadah was still just some family's book, a thing to be used, before it became an exhibit locked up in a vitrine....."
"Oh, I don't know.....It's still doing what it was meant to do or it will be, as soon as it goes into the museum. It was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along:creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' - it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists....same old, same old. It seems to me the book, at this point, bears witness to all that."

We can add the cultural treasures of Baghdad to that list.

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