‘People of the Book’ still no ‘Da Vinci Code’
Readers may be most familiar with Geraldine Brooks for her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 novel “March,” which imagined the Civil War experience of Mr. March from “Little Women.” In her latest novel, “People of the Book,” Brooks tackles much less familiar territory, imagining the history of the (real) Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the earliest existing Jewish prayer books to use illuminated illustrations.
In 1996, as the Bosnian conflict is coming to an end, Hanna Heath, a (fictional) Australian book conservator, is asked to make repairs to the Haggadah, which was (actually) fortuitously...
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