The Book of Lost Names

De: Kristin Harmel

Narrado por: Madeleine Maby

“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.

Great Story

I loved this book. There is a parallel to what happened in WWII France and what is going on in America today. The story is both sad and heartwarming. Get this book. You'll thoroughly enjoy it!

Loved it!

This is a terrific historical novel about love & loss during WWll. It weaves the love of books through its pages & has a very courageous & talented heroine. I enjoyed every minute of this journey. The only negative that I’d say is the narrator’s voice was a little irritating at times, but only mildly. Definitely recommend if you like WWll historical fiction and books!

Love

This book is amazing! This is my first book by Kristin Harmel and it won’t be my last !

Excellent

I found this to be a very compelling story. I think it is one I would listen to again and that doesn’t happen to often. To talk about the book’s contents would not do it justice.

EXCELLENT!! WWII novel from the heart

This book touched my heart in so many ways. Through the darkness and despair of the Nazi invasion and escaping Jews, this story keeps its finger directly on the thread of hope. A must read!