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The island / Victoria Hislop.

By: Publication details: London : Review, 2007.Description: 473 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0755329643
  • 9780755329649
  • 0755309510
  • 9780755309511
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinaloga- Greece's former leper colony. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion. She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip.
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Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinaloga- Greece's former leper colony. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion. She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip.

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