The walnut tree is a bitter tree and the shadow it casts is heavy. If anyone tries to rest below its branches, he is in danger of being lost…
As young children, Thalia and Demos meet under a walnut tree in a mountain village of Eurytania. Their families, the government, but also their destiny have endowed them with heavy burdens. Desperate, and seeing their dreams crumble, they make the worst of choices. As adults, they will meet again in Toronto, Canada, bearing deep scars that may never heal.
A journey through the difficult years of 1908-1958, where the reader will experience the social and political turbulence of the time, wars, the Occupation, the Civil War, the struggle for survival in isolated areas of the country and the attitudes of their inhabitants, and immigration through the dramatic story of two families and the surprising tale of a wounded romance.
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