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Miracle at St. Anna
James McBride
14.00
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- 320 pages
- ISBN 1573229717
- Jan 2003
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FROM THE PUBLISHER:
James McBride's powerful memoir, The
Color of Water, was a groundbreaking literary phenomenon that transcended
racial and religious boundaries, garnering unprecedented acclaim and topping
bestseller lists for more than two years. Now McBride turns his extraordinary
gift for storytelling to fiction-in a universal tale of courage and redemption
inspired by a little-known historic event. In Miracle at St. Anna, toward
the end of World War II, four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army's Negro 92nd
Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines.
Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect
than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan
village of St. Anna di Stazzema-in the peasants who shelter them, in the
unspoken affection of an orphaned child, in a newfound faith in fellow man. And
even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, they-and we-learn to see the small
miracles of life.
