Used book – The Thread, Victoria Hislop

1917, Thessaloniki. On the day of Dimitris' birth, a terrible fire destroys the city. His family is forced to move to the working-class neighborhoods. A few years later, Turkish refugees also settle there. Among them is Katherina. Fate brings the two children together: one, the heir to a textile empire; the other, a prodigious seamstress. Together, they will witness a tormented Greece, from the German occupation to civil revolutions and dictatorship, which will disfigure their once multiethnic and fraternal city. Almost a century later, what secrets do they guard? How can they pass them on before it's too late? The time has come to unravel the thread of their memories...

In the worthy vein of The Island, a bestseller with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, an edifying lesson in memory... Only two novels and already a "Hislop style." M. de Tilly, Le Point.