New York: The Viking Press, (2008.). Imaginative novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, which alternates between the present - 1996 where "a rare book expert is offered the job of analysis and conservation of a mysterious, beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain and recently saved from destruction during the shelling of Sarajevo's libraries" - and through the past as the lives of all those who handled the book are revealed. Afterword. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-670-01821X.