Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads (38162) Leon Sciaky

"An altogether charming book, so simply and truthfully written… The Salonica one reads about is not only a fascinating and complex city in which many national and cultural strains run side by side, but it is a critical city of Aegean politics… The breakdown of the Turkish Empire and its consequences for Balkan affairs are better understood when one has read this book. But it is not the political value of he books that should be emphasized so much as its quite charm, its unpretentious and easy portrayal of a cultural pattern through an account of an engaging family… A warm and softly luminous book." -The Nation