The Silverthread: What Connects Us Beyond Time

A train carriage. A stranger's question. A thread that has connected every life he has touched. On a train from Venice to Rome in the summer of 2001, Giovanni is still carrying the weight of a woman he lost - Margherita, met twenty years earlier in the mountains of Afghanistan, in a love story cut short before either of them understood what it meant. When a French UNESCO official takes the seat across from him, and the memory of a young physicist he met months earlier on a transatlantic flight resurfaces, Giovanni finds himself pulled once again into the question that has followed him his whole life: is there a meaning behind everything we lose? Moving between a train carriage in 2001 and the roads of Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, Syria and Italy across three decades, The Silverthread follows Giovanni's journey - outward, across continents, and inward, into the deepest questions of love, grief, and what waits beyond the life we know. This is a novel for anyone who has loved and lost, and wondered whether that is truly where the story ends. "Before I read this book, I was haunted by the fear of death. Now, I am not." - an early reader Book One of The Silverthread Trilogy, continuing with Only Silence Is Its Rightful Voice and The Seventh Dream of Giovanni.