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Set in Italy through the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling writer 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 a large number of Jewish refugees scrambling on the Alps toward Italy, where they desire to be safe finally, given 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 looking to survive.
Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a small number 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 through the war’s final phase. The consequence of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace can be an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell’s many fans and earn her even more.
