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Victoria Hislop: The Island

The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women.
ISBN: 9780061340321
Author: Victoria Hislop
Page: 473
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2007
Format: Book
Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW
Language: English

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Price: 5 390 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she dutifully cares for her father, and Anna, a wild child hungry for passion and a life anywhere butPlaka. And finally there's Alexis, Eleni's great-granddaughter, visiting modern-day Greece to unlock her family's past.

A richly enchanting novel of lives and loves unfolding against the backdrop of the Mediterranean during World War II, The Island isan enthralling story of dreams and desires, of secrets desperately hidden, and of leprosy's touch on an unforgettable family.

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