People of the Book

People of the Book van Geraldine Brooks is een meeslepende roman geïnspireerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van de Sarajevo Haggadah, een eeuwenoud en kostbaar manuscript. Het verhaal volgt conservator Hanna Heath, die de geschiedenis van het boek reconstrueert aan de hand van sporen en aanwijzingen. Zo ontvouwt zich een rijke, historische reis door verschillende tijden en culturen, vol intriges, oorlog en menselijke verhalen. The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has been recovered from the smouldering ruins of wartorn Sarajevo, she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. A renowned book conservator, she must now make her way to Bosnia to start work on restoring The Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish prayer book - to discover its secrets and piece together the story of its miraculous survival. But the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to rock Hannah's orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the book. As meticulously researched as all of Brooks's previous work, 'People of the Book' is a gripping and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.