Alexis Fieldings mor, Sofia, har aldri fortalt noe om bakgrunnen sin. Alt hun vil si er at hun vokste opp i en landsby på Kreta før hun flyttet til London. Da Alexis bestemmer seg for å dra til Kreta, gir imidlertid Sofia henne et brev som hun ber henne overlevere til ei gammel venninne. Da hun ankommer landsbyen Pláka, oppdager Alexis at den ligger et steinkast fra den forlatte øya Spinalonga, ei øy som tidligere var bebodd av spedalske. Når hun møter Sofias venninne, Fortini, får hun høre historia om oldemora Eleni og døtrene hennes, og en familie som var hjemsøkt av tragedier, kriger og lidenskap.
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L'île des oubliés
2013-04, Librairie générale française
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Øya
2008, Schibsted
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Wyspa
2007, Albatros
Paperback
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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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