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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: book of lost names
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Harmel, Kristin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 388 pages : 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Kristin Harmel.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Women librarians
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Photographs
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Code and cipher stories
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Underground movements
    geographic: France
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: France
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: France
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: German occupation, 1940-1945
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Historical / World War II
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Women
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / War & Military
  subject:
    topic: Code and cipher stories
  classification: PS3608.A745 B66 2020
  classification: 813.6 23
  identifier: 9781982131890
  identifier: 1982131896
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191020
    record change date: 20201021160438.0
    record identifier: in00004272027