People of the Book

Description

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 Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultranationalist fanatics.

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Other Editions

• People of the Book: A NovelViking Adult2008-01-01
• People of the bookPenguin1991-01-01
• People of the bookPenguin1991-01-01
• People of the BookViking2008-01-01
• People of the BookElectronic resourceViking2008-01-01
• People of the BookViking2008-01-01