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New York Times article about Nazis looting books during World War II and the fact that German libraries are still full of those stolen books was the catalyst for Kristin Harmel’s newest novel.
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The Book of Lost Names is Harmel’s fifth WWII historical novel.
The story opens in 2005 when eighty-six year old Eva Traube Abrams sees a photo of a book that she hasn’t seen in sixty years. Chapter Two begins in July 1942 in German occupied Paris, France when Eva’s Jewish father is taken in the middle of the night by the SS. With the help of a friend and forged papers that Eva designs, she and her mother escape to Aurignon in the Free Zone of France.