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The Island (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Victoria Hislop (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “His reaction to her sloppiness was symptomatic of his approach to life in general, and she found his demands for her things to be shipshape unpleasantly controlling. She tried to appreciate his need for tidiness but resented the unspoken criticism of the slightly chaotic way in which she lived her life.”
  • “He would rather not have married at all than marry where there was no love and no beauty, and he was relieved to have found both in such equal measure.”
  • “Theirs was a relationship that blossomed in the rarefied microcosm of a university, but in the outside world it had withered”
  • “but what really determines what happens to us are the actions of those around us now and those who came before us.'”
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  • but what really determines what happens to us are the actions of those around us now and those who came before us.’
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  • ‘If we do not want to allow the world to sink into chaos, we must release the love which is trapped in the heart of all humans,’
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  • lives were intertwined, and that’s what we really mean when we talk about fate in Greece. Our so-called fate is largely ordained by our ancestors, not by the stars.
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  • solitude did not have to mean loneliness. You could be lonely in a crowd.
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  • He would keep his temper and excuse their ignorance, for that was all it was.
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  • SPINALONGA: Dominated by a massive Venetian fortress, this island was seized by the Turks in the eighteenth century. The majority of Turks left Crete when it was declared autonomous in 1898 but the inhabitants refused to give up their homes and their lucrative smuggling trade on Spinalonga. They only left in 1903 when the island was turned into a leper colony. In 1941, Crete was invaded by the Germans and occupied until 1945, but the presence of lepers meant Spinalonga was left alone. Abandoned in 1957.
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  • rose to greet her. ‘Kalimera, Alexis!’ she said warmly. She was wearing a blouse similar to the one she had lent Alexis, though Fotini’s was in shades of ochre that
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  • Leprosy can affect nerve endings, and the result of this is that you can’t feel it if you burn or cut yourself. That’s why people with leprosy are so vulnerable to inflicting permanent damage on themselves, and the consequences of that can be disastrous.’
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  • Theirs was a relationship that had blossomed in the rarefied microcosm of a university, but in the outside world it had withered and, three years on, was like a sickly cutting that had failed to survive being transplanted from greenhouse to border.
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  • ‘That’s your great-aunt Maria and great-uncle Nikolaos,’
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Plaka, 1953 A cold wind whipped through the narrow streets of Plaka and the chill of the autumnal air encircled the woman, paralysing her body and mind with a numbness that almost bloacked her senses but could do nothing to alleviate her grief.

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This is book 81 of 100 in Top 100 Books That Defined The Noughties (Telegraph). (authoritative list)

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  1. Victoria Hislop (Author)

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  1. Jan Schei (Translator) - Norwegian translator

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Review
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Publication Date: 2005
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Page Count: 496

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