People of the Book

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Pages are crisp and unmarked throughout. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Dust jacket is clean and unmarked. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Viking, 2008. A historical novel following a rare book conservator called to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a medieval illuminated Jewish manuscript that survived centuries of war and persecution, alternating between her present-day investigation and vignettes tracing the manuscript's journey through time. Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for March