The Island
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15 years, 5 months ago at Nov 24 0:53
This was a very moving and poignant book about family and adversity. I liked interactions of the characters and how Alexis learns about her mother's family and why her mother Sofia never talked about them until now.
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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
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Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks
Release date: 24 July 2007
ISBN-10 : 0061340324 | ISBN-13: 9780061340321
Release date: 24 July 2007
ISBN-10 : 0061340324 | ISBN-13: 9780061340321
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