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Sixth & I

Geraldine Brooks

Apr 22, 2008 • 7:00 pm ET
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Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and of The Secret Chord. The novel 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.

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