The Thread - Hardcover

Hislop, Victoria

4.07

15,914 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0755377737 ISBN 13: 9780755377732

Publisher: Headline Review, 2011

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The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND and THE RETURN.

Thessaloniki, 1917. 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 Sarafoglou'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 itself, as war, fear and persecution begin to divide its people.

Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' 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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Review:

'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious... All those who loved The Island, her hugely successful first novel, will fall on it' (The Sunday Times)

'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious' (The Sunday Times)

'Fast-paced narrative and utterly convincing sense of place' (Guardian)

'Hislop's fast-paced narrative and utterly convincing sense of place make her novel a rare treat' (Guardian)

'[Hislop's] Med-set period romances may fill a million holiday suitcases. Yet she has brought something fresh, unusual and rather intrepid to an often vapid genre, with a tenacious attention to the tangled and controversial history that fuels her plots... The Thread will entertain and enlighten legions of readers who, like it or not, will never pick up a historian such as Mark Mazower. Its oddly vehement political edge and fervent multicultural sympathies cut through the helpings of schmaltz and sentiment to generate Hislop's characteristic sour-sweet flavour. That taste can clearly tickle the palate of millions' (Independent)

'Fresh, tenacious and rather intrepid' (Independent)

'This is storytelling at its best and just like a tapestry, when each thread is sewn into place, so emerge the layers and history of relationships past and present' (Sunday Express)

'Hislop does her research and is very good at interweaving the lives of individuals into the backcloth of great events, giving the reader a history lesson that doesn't feel like one... Recommended' (Daily Mail)

Her best novel yet (Scotsman)

'A brilliant page turner and destined to become a reading group staple, THE THREAD is rich with drama and historical detail' (Glamour)

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'Sweeping, magnificently detailed and ambitious' The Sunday Times

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