8 September 1943. Italy has sued for peace with the Allies and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian on the run. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps to where they hope they will be safe at last. What they don't know is that tomorrow Italy will be under German occupation and about to become a vicious battleground between the Nazis, an Increasingly confident resistance and the advancing Allies...Set against this dramatic historical backdrop, Mary Doria Russell's new novel recalls - through the lives of a handful of brilliantly-drawn characters: a mercurial Italian resistance leader, a Catholic priest, an Italian rabbl's family, a disillusioned Wehrmacht doctor - the little known conspiracy of ordinary Italians who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the final, desperate 20 months of the war. Full of drama, warmth, nobility and, for all the darkness, hope, A THREAD OF GRACE tells a story of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and accomplishing remarkable things. It is a breathtaking achievement.
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Mary Doria Russell is a trained paleoanthropologist and has written papers on subjects as various as bone biology and cannibalism. She is the author of the multi-award-winning THE SPARROW and its sequel CHILDREN OF GOD and spent six years researching and writing A THREAD OF GRACE. Mary Doria Russell lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Vendeur : Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition-first printing. VGC plus.Doubleday,2005.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the cover) with Dj(a couple of nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC plus.Illustrated with b/w maps.Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted and yellow on the outer edges,small crease and nick on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages.335pp including List of characters.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition.Heavy book. N° de réf. du vendeur 16201
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Vendeur : Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. First edition-first printing. VGC plus.Doubleday,2005.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the cover) with Dj(a couple of nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC plus.Illustrated with b/w maps.Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted and yellow on the outer edges,small crease and nick on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages.335pp including List of characters.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition.Heavy book. N° de réf. du vendeur 5169
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