“...Themelis presents us with robust characters, people with identity, depicting their lives in space and time while bringing this space and time to life. In doing this, he also brings the peoples who determine them to life. A tireless investigator, he employs realist detail in the same way as Balzac, as a footprint of the soul or history, while constructing a novelistic universe that is coherent and continuous; Thomas is the lost father of Nicoli-Efendi from the Quest. His universe moves to the time of the cycles and overthrows of history.