A graphic novel, translated from French, about the destruction of a library in Spain in the year 976 when “radical clergy” swept in during a power vacuum. Some books are secreted away by a ragtag group: one enslaved black woman, one enslaved eunuch, a random thief and an ornery mule. This book is about their travails and has both a cautionary warning about the destruction of books but also an essay about the actual political situation of that era at the end. The essay was good but I might have liked to have seen more of that information in the story that was being told. There’s some hopping around in time that made me not entirely clear sometimes which part of the story I was in. The illustrations are stunning.