People of the Book: A Novel

<b>The bestselling novel that follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>March</i> and of <i>The Secret Chord</i>, coming from Viking in October 2015</b><br><br>Inspired by a true story, <i>People of the Book</i> is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called &quot;a tour de force&quot;by the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century S pain. 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.