Victoria Hislop is the internationally bestselling author of The Island and The Return. She writes travel features for the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, House & Garden, and Woman & Home. She divides her time among rural Kent, London, and Crete. She is married and has two children.
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.
一座绝望的岛, 一座永远没有返还之路的岛。 从那里回望,可以望见家乡,就一水之隔,一箭之地。 但永远无缘再次踏上家乡。 这种味道,是一个心愿,是那些人百般纠缠,难以了结的心愿。 故事就发生在这样一座岛上。二战期间,整个欧洲大陆烽火连天,硝烟四起。战争,毁灭,人...
评分其中有两个场景,我想,是够浪漫的:253页,当克里提斯医生从斯皮纳龙格岛的地道里出来时,看到站在港口的玛丽娅时;340页,埋葬了安娜后,克里提斯和玛丽娅在伊拉克利翁海边的小酒馆里的情景。你完全可以想象出那时的情景有多美好,恰如史铁生说的:最美好的位置,不一定是最...
评分书商宣称的——“令整个欧洲潸然泪下的故事”,未让我落泪,我不是铁石心肠,只是本书绝不至于像宣传那样的叫全人类都得发怮。 在某几节的时候,已经准备好了眼泪,但总在下一秒消失无影了,一切都太轻了,轻的比不上曾经很多被泪水打湿过的故事。等到阖上书页,我把那些泪...
评分同事极力推荐我看,说超级感人,还把整个故事绘声绘色地复述了一遍。 然后我读了,读后的感觉是,好像看一部电影,所有的精彩都已经在预告片里出现过,并且预告片比正片更吸引人。 也不乏我喜欢的元素:充满海洋气息的地中海风情、蔚蓝色的异域情调,橡果面包、百里香炖蜗牛…...
看这本书完全受宣传影响--“感动了整个欧洲的小说”结果没有感动我半点,反而觉得作者的处女作读起来很生硬,用词不亲切。很想渲染气氛却又找不到切入点,有点故弄玄虚的感觉。再有故事太老套了,其实想想聚集着一群麻风病的一个小岛,不能只单纯的谈岛上的生活,所以作者拓展,结果德军什么的都来了
评分原文往往比译作少了一层纱,看的更真切(近些年引进的译作都翻得不怎么样,有些竟连常识都不懂就敢上马),且读起来不拗口,按我的标准来说挺好的。
评分看扉页上,上面说这小说号称感动了整个欧洲。看完之后,觉得这话有些浮夸了,但是的确算是本好书,一个家族的故事,一个被麻风病笼罩的岛屿,人间的冷漠与真情。有时候不说,只是害怕大家知晓秘密后无情的冷漠,没有足够强大的心来抵御这人间的歧视冷眼
评分Her first story. Cannot put the book down till the end.
评分没有某网站宣传的那么好,看完没任何感觉。
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