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  • A very moving story  

    The Island (Paperback)
    This was a very moving story, indeed. You learn a lot about aussi customs on the island of Crete - and about the leper colony on the tiny island of Spinalonga off the coast of Crete qui Was maintained up to as late as 1952! Unbelievable!
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  • travel ... 1 1  

    The Island (Paperback)
    A trip to Crete first, which all lovers of Greece find fresh and warm atmosphere, but also a trip back in time, when there are only a few decades, the lepers were exiled to the island of Spinalonga. These discoveries are made through four generations
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  • Not convinced by the stud  

    The Island (Paperback)
    This book About did not live up to its reputation. The plot of the daughter Who wants to find out about her mothers past is unconvincing. HOWEVER I found the story of the people on the Lepers' Island and the effects on the people on the mainland inte
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  • The gift to hook the reader  

    The Island (Paperback)
    I am pleasantly surprised by the ability to build a story with strong characters turn storyline background, even if the story is sometimes time is too romanticized. One begins the game.
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  • the island of lepers  

    The Island (Paperback)
    This novel deals with a subject that I mistakenly thought to belong to a moyenageux past leprosy in Europe. Through the story of a Cretan family affected doubling (at two different times) by this terrible disease, you learn a lot about the lives of p
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  • In search of its origins  

    The Island (Paperback)
    I read the novel after visiting the island of Spinalonga. The resemblance between the reality of the place and the description Victoria Hislop is actually disturbing. The novel me to revive the visit over 60 years ago. I urge all people to read this
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  • Crete as we do not talk!  

    The Island (Paperback)
    I loved this book for her modesty to describe an event that had more traumatizing and cast a pall of an inhabitant of Crete at the time the events take place ... there is not so long! I look forward to the French translation to share my reflections w
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  • Time travel, heart of Crete and Crete ...  

    The Island (Paperback)
    Novel that depicts with a great sensitivity of events that occurred in a small corner of Crete, through the lives of four generations of women. Takes us to the heart of the history of leprosy, history, family histories. A dream, to cry, to love. To d
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