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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. 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 but Plaka. 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 is an enthralling story of dreams and desires, of secrets desperately hidden, and of leprosy's touch on an unforgettable family.
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The Island, Victoria Hislop
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- The Island
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Victoria Hislop
- Publisher
- Harper
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 474
- ISBN10
- 0061340324
- ISBN13
- 9780061340321
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Health & Medicine, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Friendship, Relationships, Fun, Medicine, Adapted for Film, Past, Diseases, Journey, Psychological novels, Greece, Family relationships, Genealogy, Islands, Family Sagas, Family secrets, Searching for Oneself, Interweaving of Past and Present, Searching in the Past, Crete, Leprosy
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Islands
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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. 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 but Plaka. 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 is an enthralling story of dreams and desires, of secrets desperately hidden, and of leprosy's touch on an unforgettable family.