Category: Fiction: Historical

Copyright/published Year: 2005 by Random House

ISBN: 0375501843

Binding: hardcover

Description: Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new ì novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of ì The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum ì is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her ì father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over ì the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now ì that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate ì peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is ì anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open ì battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, ì Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to ì survive.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in ' like new' condition.

Additional condition description

2005 Hardcover. Minimal shelf wear. Sound, square binding. Clean and unmarked copy. Minimal wear to dust jacket