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Author:

Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-

Title:

A thread of grace : a novel / Mary Doria Russell.

Edition:

Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Ballantine Books,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xii, 442 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Rescue--Rescue--Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
Holocaust survivors--Fiction.
Jews--Italy--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Jewish fiction.
War stories.

Notes:

Previously published: New York : Random House, 2005. Includes a reader's guide with an interview with the author and questions for discussion.

Summary:

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. Based on 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.

ISBN:

9780449004135
0449004139

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

NOPA983 -- Grafton Public Library (Grafton)

XUPC157 -- Griswold Public Library (Griswold)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

ARPC277 -- Leon Public Library (Leon)

NUPD663 -- Osage Public Library (Osage)

VQPC384 -- Reinbeck Public Library (Reinbeck)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)