Written by: Geraldine Brooks
Submitted By: Lindsey Back
War torn Sarajevo, a medieval manuscript, and the forces that try to put an end to attempts to restore the book.
In the race to conserve the book, a story of the story of the book unfolds. A feather, a wine stain a mark of saltwater. Who held the book when the feather fell, the wine spilt - when and under what circumstances and can the composition of the salt tell where it was when it was soiled?
A great book on many levels, I so enjoyed it and it sent me to the net to find out more about book conservation and the Sarajevo war.
