Book
The book of lost names / Kristin Harmel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982131890
- Physical Description: 388 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition July 2020.
- Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2020.
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| Subject: | Women librarians > Fiction. Photographs > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > France > Fiction. Jews > France > Fiction. France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | War fiction. Historical fiction. Cryptologic fiction. |
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- 9 of 10 copies available at Consortium of Ohio Libraries. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Marvin Memorial Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvin Memorial Library | F HARM (Historical Fiction) (Text) | 30202002333355 | Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
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? --