A youngster from Asia Minor, obsessed by symmetry, leaves his fatherland during the ethnic cleansing directed by the Turks in 1920 – 1922. He finds himself in Siena, Italy where he meets with M.C. Escher with whom he shares the interest in symmetry. In 1936 he is obliged to flee again due to his opposition to the fascist regime. His next destination is Spain, where he participates in the International Brigades defending the Spanish Republic. There he meets Rachel, a Jewish girl from Thessaloniki, the love of his life. After the victory of Franco he flees again to France where he is involved in the underground resistance to the Nazis and meets with the famous mathematicians of the Bourbaki group. Rachel is caught by the Nazis and is deported. Before dying she gives birth to a daughter, who, after the war seeks her father.

Polis, 2012, 304 p.