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Scope and Contents Brooks has written a fictionalized version of the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah. It traces the illuminated Hebrew manuscsript created in 15th century Spain to Venice in 1690 to Bosnia during WW II through the life of a contemporary Australian book conservationist. The author illuminates the essential historic details of the book with the fascinating fictional characters involved in the plot.Publishers Weekly: "Reading Geraldine Brooks's remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a journalist. Now in her dazzling new novel, People of the Book, Brooks allows both her native land and current events to play a larger role while still continuing to mine the historical material that speaks so ardently to her imagination. Late one night in the city of Sydney, Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, gets a phone call. The Sarajevo Haggadah, which disappeared during the...