He disappeared. That's all she really knew. In search of her father
Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son
from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a
wary, tormented man living in self-imposed exile and haunted by
what happened to him under the rule of the Colonels in the 1960s.
Slowly Lena unlocks the secrets of her father's past, and in
getting to know him begins to understand the dark realities of
contemporary Greek history. To the Island is a book about the
impact of larger political events on the lives of ordinary people,
and how political and personal betrayals reverberate across
generations, beautifully evoking the currents and cross-currents
between individuals, within families and in broader society. And in
Lena and Andreas's stories, it shows how difficult it is to
confront our personal and collective pasts - and the terrible
consequences of being unable to do so.
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