01411cam a2200361 i 4500 295965748 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 050122s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004050942 9780375501845 0375501843 eng rda TxAuBib rda Russell, Mary Doria, 1950- A thread of grace [BOOK] : a novel / Mary Doria Russell. First edition. New York : Random House, 2005. xii, 430 pages : map, ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive. 20100107. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Italy Fiction. Jews Italy Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction. Holocaust survivors Fiction. Jewish fiction. Historical fiction. War fiction.