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Patra represents the extremes of greece sublime and mundane it took the novelist a while, but she learned to love the chaos and joy of greeces thirdlargest city. The island by victoria hislop nook book ebook barnes. Victoria hislop introduces her new novel the sunrise. Books by victoria hislop author of the island goodreads. As with her previous novel, the island, victoria hislop surrounds the story with a tale of modern womanhood in search of identity.
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Following on from the success of the island, the sunrise and cartes postales from greece, victoria hislop s latest novel, those who are loved, is set against the backdrop of the german occupation of greece in world war ii, the subsequent civil war and military dictatorship. Sep 09, 2014 victoria hislop introduces her new novel the sunrise headline books. In that novel, i thought the author handled a horrid historic event without being overly oppressive or depressing. Awardwinning and bestselling writer victoria hislop has been inspired once again by. The selfhelp book for men who never read them 2002 with. Hislop has a particular affection for greece, visits the country often for research and other reasons, and has a second home on the island of crete. In it she returns to greece, taking as her backdrop the troubled history of the city of thessaloniki in a story that spans almost a century, beginning with the great thessaloniki fire of 1917 which almost destroyed the city, burning for almost two days and razing 9,500 houses.
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