Brooks, Geraldine.

People of the book : a novel / Geraldine Brooks. - New York : Penguin Group USA, 2008. - 372, 9 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Includes "A Penguin Readers Guide to People of the Book" (9 p.).

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 binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.

ISBN: 9780143115007 (trade pbk.) : $15.00 0143115006 (trade pbk.) : $15.00

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Judaism--Prayers and devotions--Fiction.
Manuscripts, Hebrew--Fiction.
Books--Conservation and restoration--Fiction.