Historical fiction at its best! In the early 1940s, Eva Traube and her mother escape from Paris to southern France ahead of a Nazi round-up of Jews. In Vichy-controlled France, Eva discovers her talent for creating forged documents with new identities for Jews escaping to Switzerland. The title of the novel refers to a book in which she keeps coded information about those escaping so that their history will not be erased; she hopes the children especially will be able to re-unite with families after the war. Inspired by true events, this novel is a riveting and absorbing page-turner with themes of love, loss, and courage.Publisher 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 . 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.