Eva Traube is a doctoral student in English literature at the Sorbonne. To answer those questions, Harmel takes the reader to Paris in 1942.
To whom did it belong? What does the code mean? How did the Germans come to possess it during the war?” The book in the photo is rare, but, the German librarian notes, “It is unique because within it, we find an intriguing puzzle: some sort of code. Many of them ended up in German libraries, and the article the photo illustrates is about a German librarian who is trying to trace some of the books, many of them rare, back to their rightful owners. The book Eva sees in that newspaper photo is one of the countless volumes the Nazis looted from their owners during the war. Eva is fictional, but her story draws from fact. In The Book of Lost Names, she bases her fiction on extensive historical research, including real-life forgers who had heroic roles during the war. She worked for a number of newspapers and magazines, including more than a decade as a reporter for People.
Petersburg and began working as a journalist in high school, including covering sports for the then- St. Harmel, who lives in Orlando, grew up partly in St.
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