Novel set in ITALY (1950s glamour and WW2 legacy)
The Thread
Location(s): Thessaloniki (Salonika)
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 20th and early 21st Centuries
From the fly leaf: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafogou’s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mother in the chaos, she flees across the sea to an unknown destination in Greece. Soon her life will become entwined with Dimitri’s, and with the story of the city, as war, fear and persecution begin to divide its people.
Thessaloniki, 2007.
A young Anglo-Greek hears of his granparents’ life story for the first time and realises he has a decision to make. For many decades, they have looked after the memories and treasures of the people who were forced to leave. Should he become their next custodian and make this city his home?
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