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Hanna Heath is a book conservator working in Sydney. She receives an urgent phone call asking her to go to war torn Sarajevo to work on a rare and beautiful haggadah, a medieval Jewish prayer book. Hanna’s journey to Sarajevo and her discoveries about the manuscript alternate with chapters about the history of the book. When Hanna finds a butterfly’s wing trapped in the pages, or wine and blood stains, we’re taken back to 1890’s Vienna or 17th century Venice, to discover what happened. Hanna also has to deal with her less than satisfactory personal life, her fraught relationship with her mother, and the tentative relationship she develops with Ozren, the young librarian who is the manuscript’s latest saviour.
---- Reviewed by Lyn, Headquarters
1 comment:
I really enjoyed this book too, after a slow start I found it fascinating and realised I have a very limited knowledge of history
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