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The Island

Published
Jul 2007
Main Genre
Historical Historical
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480

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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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First Edition Jan 2007 Harper ISBN 0061340324
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Apr 2006 Headline (UK) ISBN 0755309510
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Jan 2009 Harper ISBN 0061863459
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Oct 2009 William Morrow ISBN B000U913L6
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Oct 2006 Headline Audiobooks ISBN B00JHJNA52
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Sep 2006 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN 1846174228
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