Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms

Johan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 1894.
Little did he know that his inability to reverse a car would change the course of 20th Century History forever…

Reviews

‘Echoes of Gabriel García Márquez. Read it slowly and savor it’ – KIRKUS (Starred Review)
‘What Thornton manages to do is take one tiny player in a monumental event and focus in on Johan Thoms with the careful research of an historian and the deft touch and aplomb of a true literary artist’
– THE HUFFINGTON POST
‘A dazzling and utterly engrossing epic with an enormous beating heart’
– ANGELA JACKSON, author of ‘The Emergence of Judy Taylor’
‘A wonderful brilliant book’
– LEWIS DeSOTO, author of ‘A Blade of Grass’
‘Poignant as hell, addictive like opium, a wonderful, weird, oddball circus-like tale. It is a masterpiece’ – THE WALRUS