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    The Book of Lost Names
    The Book of Lost Names
    The Book of Lost Names
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Book of Lost Names

    Written by Kristin Harmel

    Narrated by Madeleine Maby

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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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 21, 2020
    ISBN9781797105581
    Author

    Kristin Harmel

    Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

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    • 4/5
      Good book, but there are 3 or 4 passages missing. It jumps ahead with no warning multiple times.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      An incredible book. I had trouble to stop listening as I was so engaged with each character.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Outstanding book!!! Love it! I definitely recommend to everyone that loves this author, I enjoyed it very much❤

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I wanted so much more from this book. But instead I found it full of romance and cliches.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Somewhat poorly written. Even more poorly read. It was difficult to get through.

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    • 5/5
      First off: The narrator made me love the listening to the book so much the Calmness was just mwahh ❤️❤️❤️

      2. I ain’t saying nothing might end up giving y’all spoilers so READ OR LISTEN to the book all those hours are worth it!!!
    • 5/5
      Keeps you awake in the night!Could hear it again and again!
    • 5/5
      I was captivated the entire time!
      The material was beautiful and audio was wonderful!
    • 5/5
      I just finished teaching my 8th grade ELA class about Anne Frank and the Holocaust. This story is lovely…gave me a chance to cry about the whole thing.
    • 5/5
      Anymore, I’m happy to read a good story with a message of hope. Too much negativity in the world.
    • 5/5
      A must read. And re-read. TRULLY a gem to treasure.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed this story, especially at 1.5x speed, for anyone who finds the original narration slow.
    • 5/5
      Such an amazing story! One of the best books I've ever listened to.
    • 5/5
      This was a very good book. I truly enjoyed the experience and will recommend to anyone who loves reading. It was clean and very easy to listen to. The reader was excellent
    • 5/5
      Phenomenal and heartbreaking story with unforgettably heroic (and some frustrating) characters. Beautifully written and narrated.
    • 5/5
      Sigh...so good! The narration is well done...I felt all of the emotions
    • 5/5
      Heartwarming story of the struggles many endeared during the 1940 conflict.
    • 5/5
      Loved it!!!! Hard to put down!!
      Interesting well painted characters!
      Suspenseful right to the end, surprises and unpredictable which I REALLY like
    • 5/5
      Oh, how I love his book! You're a fan of historical fiction and also love a good romance amidst a tragedy this book is for you. Extremely well written and the audiobook performance was also really good. I highly recommend it
    • 5/5
      Very enticing, such a beautiful story for a tragic history
    • 4/5
      A good summer read. Good flow and an interesting story.
    • 5/5
      Very well written book. Sad WWII story. Hope it never happens again.
    • 4/5
      A good read.. Compelling. Worth the effort
      Glad to have read
    • 4/5
      It was an easy read despite the disturbing time the book is showing .
    • 5/5
      Great book. Enjoyed it very much. Recommend to any one.
    • 5/5
      One of the best books I have ever read! Highly suggest!
    • 5/5
      It is a beautiful read. Makes you feel a bunch of things
    • 5/5
      Great read! Captivating! Beautiful story of love and heroism in a time so dark. Beautifully written!
    • 5/5
      I LOVE THIS! this book is very beautiful since the beginning. I really anticipate every chapter and they never fail me. This keeps you excited to know what will happen next. The ending is perfect too! ? You will not regret reading/ hearing this. Thank you for writing a good story.

      I am really glad this is available in audiobook. ?
    • 5/5
      One of the main at amazing reads ever. I loved Eva so fiercely