People of the book : a novel /
Geraldine Brooks.
- New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008.
- 372 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Map on lining papers.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
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Judaism--Manuscripts--Fiction. Manuscripts, Hebrew--Fiction. Books--Conservation and restoration--Fiction.