num_pages: 372
description: The complex and moving (The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called a tour de force by the San Francisco Chronicle this ambitious electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Australian rare book expert Hanna Heath to conserve this priceless work the tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient bindinga butterfly wing fragment wine stains salt crystals a white haironly begin to unlock the books deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. 
language: English
title: People of the Book
publisher: Viking Books