{"product_id":"the-book-of-lost-names-9781982131906","title":"The Book of Lost Names","description":"\"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.\" --Kristina McMorris, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSold on a Monday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Lions of Fifth Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Winemaker's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in more than sixty years--a book she recognizes as \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Lost Names\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 R my, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Lost Names\u003c\/i\u003e will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and R my disappears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Girls of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Alice Network\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Lost Names \u003c\/i\u003eis a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982131906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416","brand":"Kristin Harmel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39894509813941,"sku":"9781982131906","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3ff0a4a6-32f0-44d2-8d79-f426a82c43b1.jpg?v=1619543589","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-book-of-lost-names-9781982131906","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}