People of the Book Summary  Extended Summary  Sarajevo and
Vienna, Spring 1996  At one time, Sarajevo had been a close-
knit, modern enclave of Muslims, Christians, and Jews. But in
1996, the city is engulfed in civil war. Hanna Heath is a book
conservator who arrives in Sarajevo during a ceasefire in the
Bosnian Civil War. Every step she takes is watched over by
designated United Nations and local army officials. She has
never been in a war zone before and is a bit intimidated.  Her
tensions are somewhat eased when she is presented with the
ancient Jewish Haggadah. The Haggadah had recently been
rediscovered and the Sarajevo community wanted to display the
book as a symbol of the city’s own survival and its
multicultural and multi-religious ideal. Hannah’s task is to
restore the holy book to its original state. She carefully turns
the pages of this illustrated text and is amazed by what she
sees. The more she examines the book, the more fascinated she
becomes by its history. She wonders why Amitai Yomtov, the