The Bureau of Unknown Fates: A Novel

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Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. In 1990, Irène joins the The International Tracing Service. Meticulous and conscientious, she quickly becomes obsessed with her work - at the cost of her personal life. Years later, she is entrusted with returning thousands of confiscated objects, recovered from the liberated camps. Irène pieces together the identity of each object's rightful owner, in order to give the descendants of the victims something by which to remember th

Book release dateDecember 8, 2026

Gaëlle Nohant

Née à Paris en 1973, Gaëlle Nohant vit aujourd’hui à Lyon. La Part des flammes est son deuxième roman après L’Ancre des rêves, 2007 chez Robert Laffont, récompensé par le prix Encre Marine. Elle est également l’auteur d’un document sur le Rugby et d’un recueil de nouvelles, L’homme dérouté. Gaëlle Nohant se consacre à l’écriture depuis une dizaine d’années. Inspirée notamment par Dickens et par les écrivains victoriens, cette jeune femme qui construit le canevas de sa narration à partir d’une base documentaire importante, défend une littérature à la fois exigeante et populaire.

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The Bureau of Unknown Fates: A Novel is written by Gaëlle Nohant.

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