"Brooks, an Australian who won the Pulitzer Prize for her earlier novel, March, came on the story of the Sarajevo Haggedah – a collection of Jewish biblical stories – when she was a foreign correspondent covering the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. Its heroine is Australian rare books expert Hanna Heath, who is offered the job of analysing and conserving the famed Jewish volume and in doing so becomes determined to unlock its history."

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