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 Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force"by the San 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/30/2008
ISBN: 9780143115007
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.06w x 0.69d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 01/25/2009 pg. 20

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 122407 / People of the Book
Reading Level: 6.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 21