Brooks, Geraldine.

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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2007018082


Judaism--Manuscripts--Fiction.
Manuscripts, Hebrew--Fiction.
Books--Conservation and restoration--Fiction.

PR9619.3.B7153 / P46 2008

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