Well, yes, for me the Forgotten Island is a good book for the summer, when the neurons were also want to take some holidays. It should of course not reduce this time of year but it is most conducive to our escape. Indeed, the author transcribes a place filled with love of warmth and folklore. We gladly accompanies these generations of women caught in the turmoil of the disease and war on this island that we imagine harsh, suffocating and yet so alive: Crete. It is not surprising that a television series ("The Island") has been adapted from the novel: all the ingredients inherent in a good saga are in this book. Of propriety, solidarity, flighty or sincere love, war, rebellion, resistance, disease ...
Rarely behind this very accessible but actually enjoyable and interesting work based on real places and events while mingling refreshing fiction elements. For me, the only downside, if there were to be one, is the lack of courage to the one through whom the story comes to us, Alexis, compared to that which permeates so profoundly his family.