The book of lost names
(Large Print)
Author:
Published:
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2020.
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
Center Point large print edition.
Physical Desc:
478 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Status:
Description
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.
Copies
Location
Call Number
Status
Last Check-In
Spooner Large Print Fiction
LP HAR
Available
Jan 10, 2024
Subjects
LC Subjects
Forgers -- Fiction.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Fiction.
Jews -- France -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Photographs -- Fiction.
Women librarians -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- France -- Fiction.
Jews -- France -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Older women -- Fiction.
Photographs -- Fiction.
Women librarians -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction.
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781643587387, 1643587382
Notes
Description
"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. 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 Ray, 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 Ray disappears"--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Harmel, K. (2020). The book of lost names. Center Point large print edition. Thorndike, Maine, Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Harmel, Kristin. 2020. The Book of Lost Names. Thorndike, Maine, Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Harmel, Kristin, The Book of Lost Names. Thorndike, Maine, Center Point Large Print, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Harmel, Kristin. The Book of Lost Names. Center Point large print edition. Thorndike, Maine, Center Point Large Print, 2020.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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