Rosa and Ishmael

Enigmatic old Rosa from Smyrna and the powerful Ishmael have been living for decades under the weight of a secret marked by the violence of the Asia Minor disastrous campaign. An architect’s passion for collecting, an old photograph and a blood-stained wedding dress will combine to bring their story to light. Smyrna, Aivali, Mytilene, Athens, Constantinople; the smell of the antique shops; the allure of travel; the challenge of love and mystery: this is the labyrinthine course followed by the novel’s heroes and readers as they discover that, in the end, it is the small human stories that set their seal on History. Film rights sold (Greek-Turkish production)