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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 ultranationalist fanatics.