People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks-372 pages, Fiction
The story of an illustrated Haggadah, or passover prayer book, from the 15th century and the people who created, preserved and attempted to destroy it. The book journeys from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain to Venice to Yugoslavia among other places. Hanna Heath, book conservator, evaluates the book after it is borught out of hiding after the Bosnian-Serbian conflict of the nineties. She discovers hints and clues about its past while the reader is allowed to see the true events behind the clues.
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