![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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 synopsisĮva 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. And this was such a great one to pick up. It’s actually been a while since I’ve read a historical fiction novel too. I was so engrossed in the story that I read it one sitting. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel is such a well-written historical fiction novel. ![]()
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