And tracking the novel's new releases former Australian (characters in the book) journey fraught with danger for Jews rare manuscripts over 500 years in the paths of history begins the first scenes of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and ends in Spain. .
The manuscript "Hjadh" a legendary part of the Talmud before permanently in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. .
Brooks had been won in 2006 Bolitzr American prestigious prize for her novel also historic "Marsh" which revolves during the American Civil War. .
When Brooks prior interest in war and their psychological and ethical problems as a correspondent precedent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East .. .
The move Brooks and time between Australia and the United States with her husband, American author and son Tony Horowitz Nathanel.
