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A Thread of Grace {Unabridged Audio}
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.
My Review:
This was a wonderful book, I loved it, the narrator was terrific, did a great job of doing the different voices and accents of the large cast of characters in this book.
It is a heartbreaking and beautiful story and I finished listening to it on Thanksgiving, which was perfect because after listening to all the hardships the characters had to endure in this book because of the war and the horrific losses they suffered it just made me so grateful for my family, freedom, my country and friends!
I thought that all the different plots going on were very interesting and suspenseful and her characters were very well drawn, I would find myself thinking about them after listening to the tapes at different times in my days, they seemed very real to me.
I give the book 5 stars!
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