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Inspired by true sto­ries of the Resis­tance in World War II, this nov­el of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion begins in 2005. 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.Īn 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. 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. Find­ing refuge in a small moun­tain town in the Free Zone, she begins forg­ing iden­ti­ty doc­u­ments for Jew­ish chil­dren flee­ing to neu­tral Switzer­land.

Only Eva holds the answer - but will she have the strength to revis­it old mem­o­ries and help reunite those lost dur­ing the war?Īs a grad­u­ate stu­dent in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Pol­ish Jew. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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 unfor­get­table his­tor­i­cal nov­el from the New York Times best­selling author of the ​ “epic and heart-wrench­ing World War II tale” (Alyson Noel, # 1 New York Times best­selling author) The Winemaker’s Wife.Įva 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.