- Fiction, Literature, Social conditions, Genealogy
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Victoria Hislop
- First published
- June 6, 2005
- Pages
- 474
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks, Headline Review, Unknown
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780755309504
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