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The book of lost names
Audience Adults
Published 2020 by Gallery Books, New York
ISBN 9781982131890
Bib Id 2388670
Copyright 2020
Edition First Gallery Books edition.
Description 388 pages : 24 cm
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ISBN
9781982131890 (hardcover) $28.00
1982131896
9781982131906 (paperback) $17.00
198213190X
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FIC Harmel
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The book of lost names
Edition
First Gallery Books edition.
Publication Information
2020 by Gallery Books, New York :
Copyright Date
©2020
Description
388 pages : 24 cm
Summary
"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 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? 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."--Amazon.
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War stories.
War stories.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction
War stories.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction
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