People of the Book A Novel [Paperback]

The bestselling novel that follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war, from the author of The Secret Chord and of March,winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  

Inspired by a true story,People of the Bookis a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called a tour de force by theSan 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.Praise forPeople of the Book:

There's romance between Brooks and the world, and her writing is as full of heart and curiosity as it is intelligence and judgement.
--The Boston Globe

Intelligent, thoughtful, gracefully written and orginal. . .Brooks tells a believable and engaging story.
--The Washington Post

  Intense, gripping. . . People of the Book, like her Pulitzer Prize-winning previous novelMarch, is a tour de force that delivers a reverberating lesson gleaned from history. . . . It's a brilliant, innately suspenseful structure, and one that allows Brooks to show off her remarkable aptitude for assimilating research and conveying a wide range of settings. Also on full display is her keen sense of dramatic pacing.
--San Francisco Chronicle 

[A] marvelously intertwined narrative, with one strand tied to the contemporary world and the other leading us back into European hil&