The Book of Lost Names

Overnight in 1942, Eva Troup, a French woman, found her name, along with those of her mother and father, on the Nazi arrest lists. Overnight, she found herself in a France that felt like a stranger to her own country, a France gripped by the enemy, aided by French traitors. She became a fugitive in her own land. From the heart of one of the darkest periods in human history, we meet Eva, a lover of books and art, who somehow became a member of a resistance movement where women, like men, worked to liberate France. Her resistance, however, was nonviolent, without direct confrontation with the enemy. This is a true story, inspired by an article Kirsten Harmel read in the New York Times: "Nazi Germany Loots Books from French Libraries in 1942."