Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride
Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride
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Miracle at St. Anna

Author: James McBride

Narrator: Ted Daniel

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/11/2025


Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Deacon King Kong

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.

This acclaimed novel is now a major motion picture directed by Spike Lee.

About The Author

James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, which was turned into a film by Spike Lee. McBride is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on November 10, 2024

This was the first James McBride book I read, and I loved every minute of every page. I had watched the movie first, so I was biased to love it given I loved the movie. Yup, using that L word A LOT. Actually, Song Yet Sung might've been my first, but that's beside the point. (These two are my favori......more

Goodreads review by Dagio_maya on October 18, 2021

Bufali e bufale Metti quattro soldati che varcando il Serchio, lungo la Linea Gotica, si ritrovino isolati da tutto il resto della loro divisione. Metti che questa divisione sia la 92ª Divisione «Buffalo», ossia quella dove furono accorpati i soldati afroamericani. Metti che tutto questo accada per sal......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on May 26, 2021

Read back in high school. I really enjoyed it. Highlighted African-American soldiers in Italy during World War II who were in a small town while trying to root out Nazis in the area. They, along with their fellow white soldiers, become involved with the locals of St. Anna and things start to change. I......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on November 10, 2017

From the book jacket: McBride was inspired by an historical incident that took place in a Tuscan village and by the experiences of the Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Division, who served in Italy during World War II. It is the story of four American soldiers, the villagers among whom they take refuge,......more

Goodreads review by Celia on September 19, 2018

Miracle at St. Anna is a 2003 American-Italian epic war story. Set primarily in Italy during German-occupied Europe in World War II, the book tells the story of four Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division who seek refuge in a small Tuscan village, where they form a bond with the residents. T......more


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Praise for The Miracle at St. Anna:

“McBride creates an intricate mosaic of narratives that ultimately becomes about betrayal and the complex moral landscape of war.” —The New York Times Book Review

"Full of miracles of friendship, of salvation and survival." —Los Angeles Times

“Searingly, soaringly beautiful…The book’s central theme, its essence, is a celebration of the human capacity for love.” —The Baltimore Sun

“A haunting meditation on faith that is also a crack military thriller.” —Entertainment Weekly

“An outstanding novel about World War II inspired by the famous Buffalo Soldiers...so descriptive that I feel as though I’m an eyewitness to everything that happens emotionally on the frontline.” —The Dallas Morning News

“A miracle in its own right…McBride’s prose is stunning. His ability to bring to life an actual historical event (the massacre at St. Anna and the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Division) is a gift.” —Rocky Mountain News

“Sweetly compelling… McBride combines elements of history, mythology and magical realism to make this a story about the little things like life and forgiveness and shared experience.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution

“Riveting.” —Newsday