A story of courage and resilience, The Book of Lost Names is a novel that will linger in the readers’ minds long after the last page is turned. There are times when I had to put down the book for a few minutes to absorb the magnitude of events that had occurred in the past. ‘Her family had no idea she had been a fighter for France, a forger who had saved hundreds of lives, a woman who had once loved with her whole heart.’Įva’s journey is unimaginably hard. And while she does this, we are taken back to 1942 Paris, where Eva and her parents lived at the time of Jews being rounded up and sent to labour camps.

She embarks on a journey to Paris to claim it. The book begins in 2005 when Eva, now a librarian in the States, learns that The Book of Lost Names has been found. We’re defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.” “But we aren’t defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. With the help of a friend, she comes up with a way to do this without risking the record falling into the wrong hands, should the enemies infiltrate their forgery ring someday. As Eva works days on a stretch to save as many children as she can, she feels obligated to record the original names of these children to be shared once the war is over and the world is a better place once again. She then joins a forgery ring and uses her exceptional talent as an artist to forge documents that will help save thousands of Jewish children from the Nazis. In this tale inspired by true stories from WW2, a young Jewish woman, Eva flees Paris with her mother after the arrest of her father. There is no bound to what unspeakable things the human mind is capable of doing and to what extent it can go to protect its loved ones. If you used Facebook in the United States between May 2007 and December 2022, you can apply to claim your share of a 725 million settlement that Facebook’s parent company agreed. Holocaust stories, that are as much about human resilience and spirit as they are of the darkest period in human history. The Book of Lost Names sits next to The Nightingale and T he Tattooist of Auschwitzon my bookshelf.

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