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The Island

Author: Search for this author Hislop, Victoria (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Victoria Hislop
Medium identifier: SL fremdspr.
Year: 2005
Publisher: London, Headline Book Publishing
Media group: Schöne Literatur
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On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more.
Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga - 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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Author: Search for this author Hislop, Victoria (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Victoria Hislop
Medium identifier: SL fremdspr.
Year: 2005
Publisher: London, Headline Book Publishing
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Classification: Search for this systematic Zoa
Subject type: Search for this subject type Historisches
ISBN: 978-0-7553-0951-1
Description: 490 S.
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Language: Englisch
Footnote: Winner - Galaxy British Book Awards
Media group: Schöne Literatur