A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War I, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.
Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more.

From the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780449004135
ISBN 10	0449004139
Title	A Thread of Grace
Author	Mary Doria Russell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-12-06
Number of pages	464
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