People of the Book

✍ Scribed by Brooks, Geraldine

• Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1101158190

✦ Synopsis

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript

through centuries of exile and war

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and

conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the

Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated

with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in

its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock

the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the

book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.

In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of

fin-de-siècle Vienna, the...