Brooks, Geraldine

People of the book : a novel Geraldine Brooks - New York : Viking, 2008 - 372 p. : map ; 25 cm

Map on endpapers

In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up

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Judaism--Prayers and devotions--Fiction
Books--Conservation and restoration--Fiction

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