Four Walls (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	July 2006
Authors:	Vangelis Hatziyannidis
Translators:	Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife
Dimensions:	128 x 197 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	213
ISBN-13:	978-0-7145-3122-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-7145-3122-7
Barcode:	9780714531229

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