PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by Geraldine Brooks (Viking Penguin, 2008)
Australian-born, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Geraldine Brooks, brings us the story of the Hebrew codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, which originated in Seville in 1492 and ends up in worn-torn Sarejevo by way of Venice in 1609 and Vienna in 1894. Its story includes tentacles of various lives and wars and clandestine smuggling but centers on one contemporary book conservator, Hannah, whose personal life is revealed particularly through a love affair she has with a curator in Sarajevo. The tone throughout is serious, its subject is, at times, boring, and the ending is a bit too tidy (7/10).
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