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. Maybe I’m just hardwired or conditioned like Pavlov’s dogs to respond to “books.” Either way, I just had to request The Book of Lost Names from Netgalley, and I am so glad I did!Įva 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. Initial Thoughts: Whenever I see a book on the cover of a book, or the word “book” as the title of a book, my interest is automatically piqued.
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