The Book of Lost Names
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Narrated by:
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Madeleine Maby
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Written by:
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Kristin Harmel
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“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” (Kristina McMorris, New York Times best-selling 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, best-selling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the number one international best-selling 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 60 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 18th-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.
©2020 Kristin Harmel Lietz (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.What listeners say about The Book of Lost Names
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- Daniel
- 2023-08-28
Memorable book !
Beatifull story, well written.
Great pace and nice twists
It is in my top ten of all books !
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- Christa Unruh
- 2020-09-23
Just, just... it’s breathtaking
What a powerful, moving, terrifying, hope filled book. I highly recommend it. This one will stick with me for a while.
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- LYNDSEY M GREENHALGH
- 2021-02-19
Narrator sounds like a robot
Her voice was distracting at first, but the story lured me in. I thought maybe it was just me, but my daughter said the same thing! Beautiful story that kept me interested the whole time. You will love it too
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-01-05
listen to it!
wonderful, sad and hard to stop listening too, well written and the narrator does a great job. I recommend it.
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- Bonnie O'Grady
- 2020-08-07
Terrific
Hung on every word. Sorry when it ended. A very good book. Will read/listen again.
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- deborah hillier
- 2021-03-12
wow
couldn't put it down. mesmerizing, real life emotion, brought me to Southern France during the war.
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- Spicyb
- 2020-12-28
Beautiful!
Great story! great narrator! Will listen again and again. A must for anyone interested in historical fiction.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-10-06
wonderful story
I finished it in no time, and while the narrator did a good job overall, the Polish pronunciations lost a point for me.
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- Smore
- 2025-06-01
A must read!
This is a wonderfully written piece of literature with raw emotions. A different perspective on WWII in France. The dynamics of the characters, the love, the suffering all come alive in this novel. Had me in tears many times. This is how history stays alive after decades have passed.
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- Shannon Lynds
- 2020-10-18
Fantastic!
Instantly hooked. Amazing reader. Warning... If you have a heart at all, you'll likely cry like a baby.
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