Author: Brooks, Geraldine

In 1996, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath is offered the job of a lifetime: conservation of the Sarajevo Haggadah, rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever illuminated with images. In its ancient binding she discovers an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair - leading her into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, from the book's salvation back to its creation. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March. 384 pp.