For Jo
I am copying what I wrote about this book quite a while ago. I am posting it again because it might be hard to find by scrolling down.
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by brooks
This book is fiction but inspired by the true story of the Hebrew codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. A rare book expert, Hanna, is offered the job of a life time analysis and conservation of a mysterious beautifully illuminaated Hebrew manuscript, The narrator Hanna finde traces of salt water, wine, a white hair, a part of an insect etc in the book At each discovery the next chapter goes back to the time that that thing got in the book. The book was saved by a Catholic, a Muslim and others who were not Jewish. There is much more to this book. The book jacket will describe it better than I can but I found it a very worth while read. It is one I keep thinking of for days