Geraldine Brooks' The People of the Book is the story of a modern book conservator and the people who made and used a particular book through many ages. But truly it is the story of a particular book, a haggadah made in the middle ages and discovered in Sarajevo in 1986. It's story includes a Moorish slave in fifteenth century Spain who painted the pictures, a Jewish partisan in world war II Serbia, the museum curator in modern Sarajevo who saved it from burning and the Australian who comes to Sarajevo to inspect the book and help maintain it. The people live on in my mind weeks after I've finished the book. I think it would be of interest to high school students as well as adults.
It reminded me of:
The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
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