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The Lost Book of Bonn
Historical fiction
The Lost Book of Bonn
In 1946, Library of Congress librarian Emmy Clarke arrives in occupied Germany to help identify books looted by the Nazis and return them to their owners. A Rilke collection inscribed to Annelise, a brave Edelweiss Pirate, sends her searching through a country where records and loyalties remain fractured. The investigation opens onto the wartime lives of sisters Annelise and Christina, whose responses to Nazism, censorship, and betrayal diverged under terrible pressure. Thoughtful and dual-timeline, this novel suits readers interested in book restitution, German youth resistance, sister stories, moral compromise, and librarians using provenance research to restore silenced histories.
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World War II and Nazi persecution; antisemitism; book burning and censorship; imprisonment and violence; death and grief; family separation; wartime trauma; romantic content.
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