"People of the Book" is a captivating novel that explores the history and preservation of the Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish illuminated manuscript. The unique feature of this book is its portrayal of the collaboration between people of different faiths who risked their lives to protect the manuscript throughout history. Recommended for readers interested in historical fiction and interfaith cooperation.

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• National Jewish Book Award Nominee (2008)
• Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction (2009)
• Prime Minister's Literary Awards Nominee for Fiction (2009)
• Barbara Jefferis Award Nominee (2009)
• Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2008)
• Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work (2009)
• Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2010)

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 S pain. 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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