People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book expert, has been offered the job of a lifetime; analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, rescued from the Serb shelling during the Bosnian War. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illustrated with images. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts, in its ancient binding, an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair, she begins to unlock the book's mysteries ushering in its exquisite and atmospheric past, from its salvation to its creation through centuries of exile and war.