Refined Book Title: The Lost Names

"The Book of Lost Names," a sweeping and magnificent historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of "The Winemaker's Wife," is a fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten. Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, the novel follows a young woman with a talent for forgery who helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis.

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, stumbles upon a photograph in the New York Times that triggers a flood of memories from more than sixty years ago. The photograph depicts a book she recognizes as "The Book of Lost Names," a text that was looted by the Nazis during the war and is now housed in Berlin's Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library. Researchers are puzzled by the apparent code within the book, but only Eva holds the answer.

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. Erasing people's identities, however, comes with a price, and Eva, along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, decides they must find a way to preserve the real names of the children they are helping.

The records they keep in "The Book of Lost Names" become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears. Eva must confront her past and summon the strength to revisit old memories in order to uncover the secrets hidden within the book.

"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. Reminiscent of "The Lost Girls of Paris" and "The Alice Network," this engaging and evocative novel should never be forgotten, just like the real-life forgers who inspired it.

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