The only preposition in this sentence is the word of.
You can exactly expect what it says “Death”. You can expect the book to be about being in the pov of death, but death could mean lots of things in the book it could be about death after life or death what happens when you die or how does death feel like. From a book narrated by Death you can expect to know how death is.
pre-history
Pre is the prefix history is the base word/root word.
Hope I was able to help. :)