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Content levels
ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageMild
Trigger warnings
WarPolitical ViolenceGovernment ManipulationCaptivityAbandonmentBetrayal
Positive tags
Forbidden LoveFound Familyredemption arcSelf-Discovery
Tropes
Forbidden LoveFish out of WaterSecret IdentitySpy RomanceHistorical RomanceStar-Crossed LoversEnemies to Lovers
Themes
Government ControlHistorical Traumalove vs dutyMemory and Identitypower and corruptionsacrificeSurvivalTime and Permanence
Synopsis
"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"--
Tags
Historical FantasySpeculative FictionLiterary FictionWorld War IICold War Era