Random House:
New York; 2005
Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,
430 pp.
Cover artwork by: Robin Locke Monda

Read Russell’s THE SPARROW years ago and was very impressed and entertained. Russell’s been tinkering and researching this one for nearly five years. Set during World War II, this novel focuses on a Jewish family hiding in the Italian countryside in order to escape Nazi Germany. Russell traces “. . . the lives of a handful of fascinating characters - a charismatic Italian resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi’s family, a disillusioned German doctor. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the vast underground effort of the Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the final phase of the war.” #65859

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