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 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 ultra-nationalist
fanatics.
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