Harmel has created a slew of characters that at times can have different names because of the forgery that Eva and Rémy are doing to protect children. Sixty years later after Eva thought that the book was stolen by the Nazi’s and gone forever, she sees an article with her book and hops on the next plane to be able to reclaim it. In the process of doing so, Eva creates a book with a code alongside her partner, the handsome Rémy, where they are able to preserve the real names of the children. Eva finds herself helping a network of underground people forge documents for Jewish children so that they can smuggle them into Switzerland where they will be able to live a free life. As the Nazi’s begin invading Paris, Eva and her mother flee and end up in a small town in what was called the Free Zone. Eva Traube is a French born Jewish woman living with her parents who left Poland years before to hopefully start a new life in France. Harmel takes aspects of a true story to create an incredible tale filled with action, passion, and love during one of the darkest times in human history. Kristin Harmel’s The Book of Lost Names takes a WWII historical fiction book and turns it into something incredibly unique for a genre that can often seem overdone. There are a lot of historical fiction books surrounding WWII and most of them follow male characters that are fighting in the war.
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