and A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten. and 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 and sweeping and magnificent and (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker's Wife. Eva Traubel 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 Landes bibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code.