The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of
Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where
the nation's leper colony once was located--a place that has
haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped
from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in
1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she
dutifully cares for her father, and Anna, a wild child hungry for
passion and a life anywhere but Plaka. And finally there's Alexis,
Eleni's great-granddaughter, visiting modern-day Greece to unlock
her family's past.
A richly enchanting novel of lives and loves unfolding against
the backdrop of the Mediterranean during World War II, "The Island"
is an enthralling story of dreams and desires, of secrets
desperately hidden, and of leprosy's touch on an unforgettable
family.
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