From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated

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Beata and her daughter, Amadea, try to survive during the two world wars in Europe. Amadea who is half-Jewish decides to take on the vows of a Carmelite nun, and she eventually joins the French resistance. Both woman find love as Beata marries a French officer while Amadea meets British secret agent Rupert Montgomery.