| International Standard Book Number |
9781668081174 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668076347 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668076349 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668076354 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668076357 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Gelfuso, Hayley, author.
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| Title Statement |
The book of lost hours : a novel / Hayley Gelfuso.
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| Edition Statement |
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
390 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"A GMA book club pick!"--Jacket.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A spectacular historical and speculative novel about a WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the "time space," a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until an affair with an American CIA agent as a young woman changes the course of her life"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son -- but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn't, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself. In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past -- and the truth -- might not be as linear as she'd like to believe.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Friendship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Life change events Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Memory Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Time travel Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Libraries Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Space and time Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Clock and watch makers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Good Morning America book club.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Time-travel fiction.
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