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The Book of Lost Names

$6.00

Kristin Harmel

1 in stock

SKU: CB095 Book Condition: Very Good Categories: ,

Eva Traube Abrams,a semiretired librarian in Floridais at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper 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 describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II–an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her fathera Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zoneshe begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a priceand along with a mysterioushandsome forger named R├⌐myEva 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 Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and R├⌐my disappears. As the Germans close inEva records a lastvital message in the book. Decades laterdoes she have the strength to seek out its answer–and help reunite those lost during the war?

The Book of Lost Names

$6.00

1 in stock

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