“A book is more than the sum of its materials. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding-an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Narrator: Both, the first and third-person narrativeīook Summary: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooksįrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war Theme: Religious tolerance and intolerance, Love, Self-Preservation Versus Historical Preservation
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