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 war-
torn 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' previous work, 'People of the Book' is a gripping
and moving novel about war, art, love and survival.