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Title	:	A Thread of Grace
Author	:	Mary Doria Russell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 442 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2005 by Ballantine Books (first published February 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. War. World War II

A Thread of Grace

Mary Doria Russell

Paperback | Pages: 442 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 12824 Users | 1465 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	A Thread of Grace
ISBN:	0449004139 (ISBN13: 9780449004135)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Italy,1943 Genoa(Italy) Turin(Italy)

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What I loved: For once I was able to thoroughly enjoy a historical fiction book without wondering what was real and what was fiction. This is a character driven story and everyone in the book seemed genuine. I especially enjoyed the poignant sensibilities of the children and adolescents. Im a sucker for maps and this book had a map of real places and one of fictional places that were within the real maps area. There was also a handy characters list at the front of the book. I found myself

Spoiler Alert!I stayed up until after midnight last night finishing this. I started out listening to it on tape and got half way finished and it was on hold for someone so I had to turn it in and get the book. The narrator did a great job with the French, German, and Italian accents. Russell is so smart. She weaves the fictitious characters and places with historical fact and makes a beautiful and difficult story. This novel is very character-driven. I wondered about the characters when I wasnt

Audiobook performed by Cassandra Campbell Russells third novel leaves space and the future, and instead looks back on WW2 and the Italian citizens who saved the lives of thousands of Jews; not only their neighbors but refugees coming from other countries. It opens in September 1943, with fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father. Theyve already fled Belgium and are in Paris, when they need to move once again. This time they will cross the Alps on foot, led by an Italian soldier. Eventually

I was deeply moved by this story and am impressed by Mary Doria Russell's ability as an author. She has created characters that one can't help but love and care about. Favorite quote, and summation of the book's message ....No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. I will never forget the incomprehensible struggle of crossing the Alps to freedom (short lived) and Italy in 1943. This is a beautiful but painful book that will stay with me for a long

A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell is a story set in Northern Italy after the Italian armistice in World War II in 1943. After the armistice, the Germans invaded Italy and continued their holocaust. But in Italy there was much resistance and the Italians protected the Jews with much success as it had the highest Jewish survival rate of German occupied Europe. Russell spent 6 years researching the stories of Italy during World War II by interviewing survivors both here and and in Italy, so

A Thread of Grace tells the story of the Nazi occupation of a region of north east Italy. It begins with an uprooted community of Jews in southern France who have to flee France across the Alps when the Italians sign the armistice. Its essentially the story of how these refugees fare in Italy. When I discovered Mary Doria Russell had invented all the locations in the novel I was a bit dubious as so often this is a trick writers use to mask the sparseness of their knowledge. But the thoroughness

This was very interesting at times, but most of the time I just read in a state of confusion. Way too many characters and way too many plotlines. This book needed some careful editing, and perhaps it could have been 2 stories or the historical parts written a bit more clearly. I can't quite put my finger on what it was that didn't work, but having read many WWII books, this one just didn't cut it for me.There is no Status entry for RIP - but that is what this fine book is now doing. It met its