Book conservator Hanna Heath is brought to Sarajevo to examine and stabilize the illuminated Sarajevo Haggadah after it is rescued from the museum, and the physical clues she finds in its binding and stains, an insect wing, wine stains, salt, a white hair, trigger interleaved historical narratives tracing the manuscript's path back through Vienna, Venice, Tarragona, and fifteenth-century Seville.
Books mentioned in People of the Book (2)
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne: “From the familiar illustrations, I could tell it was a translation of Winnie-the-Pooh.”
The Zohar by Moses de León: “Ruti had been immersed in the study of the Zohar, the Book of Splendor.”
Books that mention People of the Book (1)
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “As soon as I knew it was the story of a book saved from the destruction of a library, I wanted to read Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book.”