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The end of WWII in Italy
Ballantine
December 2005
464 pages
ISBN: 0449004139
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Fiction | Historical
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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