
By Victoria Hislop
“A amazing web page turner…rich with drama and historic detail.”
—Glamour (UK)
A appealing and epic novel that spans approximately 100 years, The Thread is a powerful tale of a friendship and a love that endures in the course of the catastrophes and upheavals of the 20th century—both common and man-made—in the turbulent urban of Thessaloniki, Greece. Victoria Hislop, the world over bestselling writer of The Island and The Return, has written a superbly evocative and captivating saga enriched through deep emotion and sweeping ancient occasions, from fireplace to civil battle to Nazi brutality and financial cave in. The Thread is historic fiction at its best, colourful and beautiful with actually unforgettable characters—a novel that brilliantly captures the strength and lifetime of this singular Greek city.
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