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The overall story manages to be a TearJerker, SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, and SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} for the entire nation of Italy—it is essentially a [[InspiredBy fictional retelling]] of how ordinary Italians saved over 40,000 Jews (Italian and otherwise) from being sent to the camps by the Nazis. However, as this is set during World War II, this heroism comes at a massive personal cost to every named character.
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* TheAlcoholic: Renzo, albeit a functional one. Werner is this way at the beginning of the book, but he sobers up enough to help the Italian Resistance.
* ApronMatron: Many of the peasant women who hide the Jewish refugees.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Artur Huppenkothen.
* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Lidia Leoni, full stop.
* BrattyHalfPint: Angelo Soncini
* ColdBloodedTorture
* ApronMatron: Many of the peasant women who hide the Jewish refugees.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Artur Huppenkothen.
* {{Badass Grand|pa}}ma: Lidia Leoni, full stop.
* BrattyHalfPint: Angelo Soncini
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* GoodShepherd: What all the religious figures aspire to be.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lidia Leoni.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Renzo again.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thank goodness for the handy list of characters at the beginning of the book.
* MagneticHero: Renzo.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lidia Leoni.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Renzo again.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thank goodness for the handy list of characters at the beginning of the book.
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* OutOfFocus: What inevitably happens with the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
* PregnantBadass: One of Russell's favorite tropes.
* LaResistance
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Claudia gives birth to her late husband's child, but the premature baby dies two days later. Doubly tragic in that the baby was named after her late father.]]
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Angry Lynch Mob]]: [[spoiler:Renzo.]]
* PregnantBadass: One of Russell's favorite tropes.
* LaResistance
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Claudia gives birth to her late husband's child, but the premature baby dies two days later. Doubly tragic in that the baby was named after her late father.]]
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The overall story manages to be a {{Tearjerker}}, CrowningMomentOfAwesome, and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for the entire nation of Italy—it is essentially a [[InspiredBy fictional retelling]] of how ordinary Italians saved over 40,000 Jews (Italian and otherwise) from being sent to the camps by the Nazis. However, as this is set during World War II, this heroism comes at a massive personal cost to every named character.
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The overall story manages to be a {{Tearjerker}}, CrowningMomentOfAwesome, TearJerker, SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} for the entire nation of Italy—it is essentially a [[InspiredBy fictional retelling]] of how ordinary Italians saved over 40,000 Jews (Italian and otherwise) from being sent to the camps by the Nazis. However, as this is set during World War II, this heroism comes at a massive personal cost to every named character.
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* NotNowBernard: A blackly comic version. [[spoiler:While Lidia, Rabbi Soncini and Renzo talk about the danger of allowing Jews to go to Yom Kippur services, they keep shushing Angelo, who desperately wants to show the adults what he found in the street. He had found a woman's thumb, complete with freshly applied nail polish.]]
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* NotNowBernard: NotNowKiddo: A blackly comic version. [[spoiler:While Lidia, Rabbi Soncini and Renzo talk about the danger of allowing Jews to go to Yom Kippur services, they keep shushing Angelo, who desperately wants to show the adults what he found in the street. He had found a woman's thumb, complete with freshly applied nail polish.]]
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''A Thread of Grace'' is the third novel by Creator/MaryDoriaRussell, best known for her ScienceFiction work ''Literature/TheSparrow''. Instead of a distant planet, this story is set in WorldWarII Italy during the months between Italy's official surrender and the end of the war in Europe.
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''A Thread of Grace'' is the third novel by Creator/MaryDoriaRussell, best known for her ScienceFiction work ''Literature/TheSparrow''. Instead of a distant planet, this story is set in WorldWarII UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Italy during the months between Italy's official surrender and the end of the war in Europe.
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* DeadLittleSister: Altira for Angelo, Irmgard for Werner.
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''A Thread of Grace'' is the third novel by Mary Doria Russell, Creator/MaryDoriaRussell, best known for her ScienceFiction work ''TheSparrow''.''Literature/TheSparrow''. Instead of a distant planet, this story is set in WorldWarII Italy during the months between Italy's official surrender and the end of the war in Europe.
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''A Thread of Grace'' is the third novel by Mary Doria Russell, best known for her ScienceFiction work ''TheSparrow''. Instead of a distant planet, this story is set in WorldWarII Italy during the months between Italy's official surrender and the end of the war in Europe.
The book follows several groups of people as they struggle to survive the recent Nazi occupation of Italy. One set of stories follows several Jewish refugees as they hide out with peasant farmers in the mountains. Another set follows the efforts of the Italian Resistance as led by Renzo Leoni (and aided by a [[DefectorFromDecadence doctor/Nazi deserter)]]. Another set follows the German SS officers commissioned with bringing Italy under control.
The overall story manages to be a {{Tearjerker}}, CrowningMomentOfAwesome, and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for the entire nation of Italy—it is essentially a [[InspiredBy fictional retelling]] of how ordinary Italians saved over 40,000 Jews (Italian and otherwise) from being sent to the camps by the Nazis. However, as this is set during World War II, this heroism comes at a massive personal cost to every named character.
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Tropes in this work:
* ActionBomb: [[spoiler: Lidia Leoni's]] last act is to blow up a jail to facilitate an escape/theft of essential materials for the Italian Resistance.
* TheAlcoholic: Renzo, albeit a functional one. Werner is this way at the beginning of the book, but he sobers up enough to help the Italian Resistance.
* ApronMatron: Many of the peasant women who hide the Jewish refugees.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Artur Huppenkothen.
* [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]: Lidia Leoni, full stop.
* BrattyHalfPint: Angelo Soncini
* ColdBloodedTorture
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Claudia names her new baby Alberto after her dead father. The baby dies two days later.]]
* DeadLittleSister: Altira for Angelo, Irmgard for Werner.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: The beginning lists the major characters we will be following. At least five different plot threads occasionally intersect.
* GoodShepherd: What all the religious figures aspire to be.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lidia Leoni]]
* IHaveManyNames: Renzo again.
* ItGotWorse: The closer the Nazis are to defeat, the more violent and deadly they become.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thank goodness for the handy list of characters at the beginning of the book.
* MagneticHero: Renzo
* MeaningfulEcho: After a drunken Schramm confesses to Don Osvaldo that he killed 91,687 people at the camps with a euthanizing syringe to the heart, Osvaldo tells Schramm to kill himself as there will be no absolution for him. At the end of the book, after Schramm devotes his efforts to helping the Italian resistance (including teaching a Jewish boy how to be a medic) [[spoiler: he risks his life to save a captured and violently tortured Don Osvaldo. When it becomes apparent that he’s beyond saving, but may live just long enough to divulge what he knows about the Resistance, Schramm, after being permitted and taught by another priest, gives Osvaldo his last rites and releases him from his pain. With a syringe to the heart]].
* NotNowBernard: A blackly comic version. [[spoiler:While Lidia, Rabbi Soncini and Renzo talk about the danger of allowing Jews to go to Yom Kippur services, they keep shushing Angelo, who desperately wants to show the adults what he found in the street. He had found a woman's thumb, complete with freshly applied nail polish.]]
* OutOfFocus: What inevitably happens with the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
* PregnantBadass: One of Russell's favorite tropes.
* LaResistance
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Claudia gives birth to her late husband's child, but the premature baby dies two days later. Doubly tragic in that the baby was named after her late father.]]
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Angry Lynch Mob]]: [[spoiler:Renzo]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Many of the characters as the book progresses, but the most triumphant example has to be Claudia/Claudette, who goes from bratty teenager to hardened resistance fighter.
* VillainsOutShopping: In between conversations about crushing the Italian Resistance, von Thadden and Reinecke talk about how pleasant it would be for their wives to meet and how their children are doing.
* ViolenceDiscretionShot: These are used less and less as the book progresses to build up the tension and the stakes.
* WhamLine: "It's like flying, except you never come down."
* WorldWarII
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The book follows several groups of people as they struggle to survive the recent Nazi occupation of Italy. One set of stories follows several Jewish refugees as they hide out with peasant farmers in the mountains. Another set follows the efforts of the Italian Resistance as led by Renzo Leoni (and aided by a [[DefectorFromDecadence doctor/Nazi deserter)]]. Another set follows the German SS officers commissioned with bringing Italy under control.
The overall story manages to be a {{Tearjerker}}, CrowningMomentOfAwesome, and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming for the entire nation of Italy—it is essentially a [[InspiredBy fictional retelling]] of how ordinary Italians saved over 40,000 Jews (Italian and otherwise) from being sent to the camps by the Nazis. However, as this is set during World War II, this heroism comes at a massive personal cost to every named character.
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Tropes in this work:
* ActionBomb: [[spoiler: Lidia Leoni's]] last act is to blow up a jail to facilitate an escape/theft of essential materials for the Italian Resistance.
* TheAlcoholic: Renzo, albeit a functional one. Werner is this way at the beginning of the book, but he sobers up enough to help the Italian Resistance.
* ApronMatron: Many of the peasant women who hide the Jewish refugees.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Artur Huppenkothen.
* [[BadassGrandpa Badass Grandma]]: Lidia Leoni, full stop.
* BrattyHalfPint: Angelo Soncini
* ColdBloodedTorture
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Claudia names her new baby Alberto after her dead father. The baby dies two days later.]]
* DeadLittleSister: Altira for Angelo, Irmgard for Werner.
* FourLinesAllWaiting: The beginning lists the major characters we will be following. At least five different plot threads occasionally intersect.
* GoodShepherd: What all the religious figures aspire to be.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Lidia Leoni]]
* IHaveManyNames: Renzo again.
* ItGotWorse: The closer the Nazis are to defeat, the more violent and deadly they become.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Thank goodness for the handy list of characters at the beginning of the book.
* MagneticHero: Renzo
* MeaningfulEcho: After a drunken Schramm confesses to Don Osvaldo that he killed 91,687 people at the camps with a euthanizing syringe to the heart, Osvaldo tells Schramm to kill himself as there will be no absolution for him. At the end of the book, after Schramm devotes his efforts to helping the Italian resistance (including teaching a Jewish boy how to be a medic) [[spoiler: he risks his life to save a captured and violently tortured Don Osvaldo. When it becomes apparent that he’s beyond saving, but may live just long enough to divulge what he knows about the Resistance, Schramm, after being permitted and taught by another priest, gives Osvaldo his last rites and releases him from his pain. With a syringe to the heart]].
* NotNowBernard: A blackly comic version. [[spoiler:While Lidia, Rabbi Soncini and Renzo talk about the danger of allowing Jews to go to Yom Kippur services, they keep shushing Angelo, who desperately wants to show the adults what he found in the street. He had found a woman's thumb, complete with freshly applied nail polish.]]
* OutOfFocus: What inevitably happens with the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.
* PregnantBadass: One of Russell's favorite tropes.
* LaResistance
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Claudia gives birth to her late husband's child, but the premature baby dies two days later. Doubly tragic in that the baby was named after her late father.]]
* [[SuicideByCop Suicide by Angry Lynch Mob]]: [[spoiler:Renzo]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Many of the characters as the book progresses, but the most triumphant example has to be Claudia/Claudette, who goes from bratty teenager to hardened resistance fighter.
* VillainsOutShopping: In between conversations about crushing the Italian Resistance, von Thadden and Reinecke talk about how pleasant it would be for their wives to meet and how their children are doing.
* ViolenceDiscretionShot: These are used less and less as the book progresses to build up the tension and the stakes.
* WhamLine: "It's like flying, except you never come down."
* WorldWarII
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