The Thread

London: Headline Review. Good+. 2012. Reprint; Eighth Printing. Paperback. 130 X 31 X 197 millimeters . Light shelf and edge wear with slight cover peel, cocked spine, light water staining to top fore corners of covers and a few endleaves, non text open tear to fore edge of p13/14, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Eighth printing of Headline Review paperback edition, 2012. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design by Cabin London with photo courtesy of Alinari Archives/Corbis. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Maps; 480 pages; Thessaloniki, 1917. Dimitri Komninos is born as fire devastates the city where Christians, Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou loses her mother when their home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. She flees across the sea, alone, to Thessaloniki. Soon her life and that of Dimitri will entwine with one another, and with the story of the city itself, as war, fear and persecution divide its people. Ninety years later, a young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' life story for the first time. For decades they've looked after the memories and treasure of those who were forced to leave. Should he become their next custodian of their legacy and make this city his home? .