Book me 2/20 - People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

[byslantedlight]

Recced for me by enednoviel - and thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

It's a lovely sort of global book - an Australian book conservator working on a Jewish manuscript in Sarajevo, visiting museums and people in cities and countries all over the world to track down the forensic clues that turn up in the Sarajevo haggadah - a Jewish religious book which gives the order of the Passover Seder, and has been rescued from destruction time and time again through its five hundred year history. It was also a history that ventured into areas I've not particularly peered at before which was great - new worlds, both wondrous and terrible!

Comments

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to read this one now... it's near the top of my tbr pile.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh good! I think you'll enjoy it... I hope so! *g*

[enednoviel.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! :D