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A Thread of Grace

By Mary Doria Russell

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| Paperback | 9780449004135

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Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, 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.Continue

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, 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.


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  • The good people of Santa Maria

    A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell 448pp, Doubleday, £16.99 1943, Anno Fascista XXII: across the Maritime Alps a remnant of the French Jews climb, shepherded by Italian soldiers returning to their homeland, for Italy has broken with Nazi Germany ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Mary Doria Russell, A Thread of Grace

    "Fabulous complex historical tale" By the fall of 1943, European Jews not in death camps or murdered seek sanctuaries in places like Italy's Piedmont Province though this area as a refugee haven remains questionable. The small village of Porto Sant'A ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 464 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0449004139
  • ISBN-13: 9780449004135
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Pub date: Dec 06, 2005
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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