Captain Corelli's Mandolin goes gothic.On an unnamed Greek island
in some soft-focus past, the Rodakis family produced honey and an
eccentric son who lives alone in a remote house. When a woman
fleeing domestic abuse lands on the island, the village priest asks
Rodakis to give her refuge. He doesn't know she has a baby (alive)
in her trunk. When discovered, the child draws her mother, Vaya,
and Rodakis together. But this offbeat love story, told in
old-fashioned abstractions (which may not have translated well),
turns into a 19th-century gothic tale when Rodakis and Vaya create
a kind of honey product called "Angelico," so sublime that it
fetches huge profits. Strange things begin to occur. Vaya is killed
by lightning. The abbot of a nearby monastery and a foreign tourist
each want the secret formula for Angelico. When the evil abbot,
with the assistance of all his monks, secretly imprisons Rodakis,
his adopted daughter (and sexual partner) is forced to leave the
island. Predictably, there is a rescue and a
reunification.Initially charming in its slow-motion evocation of
Greek rural life and the peculiarities opened up by isolation, it
all becomes claustrophobic with heavy-handed plotting. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Rodakis lives alone until a fugitive woman and her daughter land on
his doorstep. He takes them in and they persuade him to revive the
family bee-keeping business. The honey they make is so delicious,
everyone wants to get their hands on the recipe.
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