LEADER 00000cam 2200289Ia 4500 001 ocn758392000 003 OCoLC 005 20120723123704.0 008 111019s2012 nyub 000 1 eng d 020 9780755377756 035 (OCoLC)758392000 040 BTCTA|beng|cBTCTA|dBDX|dYDXCP|dCXP|dBKX|dNVC|dB&T|dB&T 043 e-gr--- 050 PR6108.I85 2012 082 04 823/.92|223 100 1 Hislop, Victoria. 245 14 The thread :|ba novel /|cVictoria Hislop. 260 London :|bHeadline,|cc2012. 300 465 p. :|bmaps ;|c21 cm. 520 "Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in the crowd of refugees clambering for boats to Greece. Landing in Thessaloniki's harbor, she is at the mercy of strangers in an unknown city. For the next eighty years, the lives of Dimitri and Katerina will be entwined with each other and-through Nazi occupation, civil war, persecution, and economic collapse- with the story of their homeland. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007: A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' remarkable story for the first time and understands he has a decision to make. For decades, Dimitri and Katerina have looked after the treasures of those who have been forced from their beloved city. Should he stay and become their new custodian?"--P. [4] of cover. 650 0 Families|zGreece|zThessalonikē|vFiction. 651 0 Thessalonikē (Greece)|xGenealogy|vFiction. 651 0 Thessalonikē (Greece)|xSocial conditions|y20th century |vFiction. 655 7 Domestic fiction.|2gsafd.
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