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A Thread of Grace : a Novel by Russell, Mary Doria, 1950- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel... [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles TimesIt is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken from Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it quickly becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, the Allies, Resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive. Tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters—a charismatic Italian Resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi's family, a disillusioned German doctor—Mary Doria Russell tells the little-known story of the vast underground effort by Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the final phase of World War II. A Thread of Grace puts a human face on history.Praise for A Thread of Grace“An addictive page-turner... [Mary Doria] Russell has an astonishing story to tell—full of action, paced like a rapid-fir
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-
- Publisher
- New York: Random House
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781588364418
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (194 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14