Name: The Book of Lost Names
Price: 21.21 EUR
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Author: Kristin Harmel
ISBN: 9781982131906

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kristin Harmel

Publisher

Gallery Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781982131906

Synopsis "The Book of Lost Names "

"A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten." --Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday 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 "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker's Wife. Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in more than sixty 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 does she have the strength to revisit old memories? As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris and find refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, where she began 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. 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.

Kristin Harmel

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Kristin Harmel (born in 1979 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer and journalist known for her historical fiction novels set during World War II. She started her career as a sports reporter at the age of 16 and worked for over a decade for People magazine, in addition to contributing to other outlets such as Men’s Health and Woman’s Day. She is co-founder and co-host of the literary podcast Friends & Fiction.

Among her most notable works are The Book of Lost Names (2020), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Goodreads Choice Award, The Forest of Vanishing Stars (2021), The Winemaker’s Wife (2019), and The Paris Daughter (2023). Her novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and have topped The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Harmel lives in Orlando, Florida, with her family.

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