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In 1996, rare-book expert Hanna Heath is called to Sarajevo to examine and conserve the priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, a centuries-old illuminated Jewish manuscript rescued during the Bosnian War. Hidden within its pages, she discovers tiny clues—including wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, and an insect wing—that reveal pieces of the book’s extraordinary journey through centuries of war, religious persecution, exile, and survival. Inspired by the true history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, the novel weaves Hanna’s modern investigation with the lives of the people who risked everything to create, protect, and preserve the book.
In 1996, rare-book expert Hanna Heath is called to Sarajevo to examine and conserve the priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, a centuries-old illuminated Jewish manuscript rescued during the Bosnian War. Hidden within its pages, she discovers tiny clues—including wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, and an insect wing—that reveal pieces of the book’s extraordinary journey through centuries of war, religious persecution, exile, and survival. Inspired by the true history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, the novel weaves Hanna’s modern investigation with the lives of the people who risked everything to create, protect, and preserve the book.