Nub of the Book in 90 words or less...

Tue, 10/23/2012 - 7:07pm -- KChin

Saving books is what libraries are all about: this is a fictionalized account of one very special book, the history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, a sacred Jewish codex rescued by a Muslim librarian during the 1996 Yugoslav civil war.  This book originated over five centuries earlier, and we follow its near misses backwards through the years, to Sarajevo of the 1940’s, to 19th century Vienna, to 15th century Venice, to the Spanish Inquisition, to Seville in 1480. There are connections to the present day, and the life of Hannah Heath, the manuscript conservator charged with restoring the sacred text. This is entertaining reading by an award winning author.

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