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Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II,
a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee
the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel from the international
bestselling author of the “epic and heart-wrenching World War II tale” (Alyson
Noel, #1 New York Times bestselling author) The Winemaker’s Wife.
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one
morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She
freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she
recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.
The Book
of Lost Names ,The accompanying article discusses the looting
of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva
remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them
so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text
thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of
the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und
Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but
researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva
holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and
help reunite those lost during the war?
The Book
of Lost Names ,As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced
to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a
small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for
Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a
price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she
must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to
remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost
Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is
betrayed and Rémy disappears.
The Book of Lost Names ,An
engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The
Alice Network, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the
resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of
evil.
