![]() ![]() ![]() Within its pages is a coded message about a Jewish mother and son in hiding. ![]() Languages from all over Europe rose from the crowd, blending French, German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and many more into the cacophonous hum.” Desperate for passage to the United States, the refugees are all scrambling to secure visas and tickets on ships that may or may not arrive.Īmong the publications Ava gathers is an issue of Combat, a periodical printed by resistance fighters in Lyon, France. She finds Lisbon filled with refugees, “their arms laden with sacks of belongings, battered suitcases, and children. However, when she arrives in the neutral country of Portugal, Ava learns that her job entails so much more than promised. Eager to do her part to end the war in which her brother is fighting, Ava resolves to get to work. In spring 1943, Ava Harper is perfectly happy with her job in the Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress, where she spends her days among “fragrant, yellowed pages.” But as World War II rages on, Ava is pressed into service for a covert government operation that involves information-gathering from newspapers, magazines and other texts published in neutral territories. ![]()
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