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A Thread of Grace
by Russell, Mary Doria
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,
- ISBN 10
- 0375501843
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501845
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About This Item
New York;: Random House, 2005. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,. Robin Locke Monda. New York;: Random House:, 2005. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine, 430 pp. Cover artwork by: Robin Locke Monda Read Russell's THE SPARROW years ago and was very impressed and entertained. Russell's been tinkering and researching this one for nearly five years. Set during World War II, this novel focuses on a Jewish family hiding in the Italian countryside in order to escape Nazi Germany. Russell traces ". . . the lives of a handful of fascinating characters - a charismatic Italian resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi's family, a disillusioned German doctor. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the vast underground effort of the Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the final phase of the war."
Synopsis
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.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Seller
- Ziesings
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 65859
- Title
- A Thread of Grace
- Author
- Russell, Mary Doria
- Illustrator
- Robin Locke Monda
- Book Condition
- Used - Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375501843
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501845
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York;
- Date Published
- 2005
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