A Thread of Grace [Unabridged Audio]

Books on Tape, Inc, 2005. Audiobook. Good. Audiobook, 20 hours unabridged on 13 cassettes. A retired library copy, clamshell case is in good condition with typical wear, stamps, stickers, etc. "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 find safety 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 seemingly overnight it becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and Italian citizens trying to survive. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas and history. Mary Doria Russell's third novel [after The Sparrow and Children of God] will introduce to an even larger audience the authentic drama of a nearly forgotten aspect of World War II's Italian front." This is an audio book.