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Hislop describes the moves of the dance with a knowing eye, her evocation of its intense dark drama and the close partnership of dancer and guitarist cleverly foreshadowing the central love interest of the book.
Victoria Hislop – The Number One Bestselling Author Victoria Hislop – The Number One Bestselling Author
While the history of the city and Greece as a whole was something new and informative the author was inconsistent again - some major events took up several chapters while others were glossed over in a few paragraphs. But otherwise this is a very good piece of writing, one which will move you, teach you about an era of Greek history which is not widely known or understood, and give you some insights as to why Greece is going through the problems it is going through today. It was too obvious she was simply interested in using the events to interweave the characters' lives.I suspect comparisons will be made with Louis de Bernieres' Captain Corelli's Mandolin and it's true this book will excite imagination and encourage travel to Thessaloniki to experience the spirit of a city nestling in the arms of the ever-present Mount Olympus. When Miguel finally tells the story of the Ramirez family, who once owned the cafe, the mysterious English Mary will be brought to life as her younger self - a 1930s Spanish dancer, Mercedes. Richard discovers how both Charles Dickens and Elena Ferrante were inspired by the Italian landscape. I had ages to be so completely into a book and living in agony for the characters, even though we knew the end of their story from the beginning. It needed long stretches of tranquil time and near solitude to read it, but it was sanity-saving to be so absorbed by a work of literature.
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This book will excite imagination and encourage travel to Greece and Thessaloniki in particular to experience the spirit of a city nestling in the arms of the ever-present Mount Olympus. When Helena inherits her grandparents’ apartment in Athens, she is overwhelmed with memories of the summers she spent there as a child, when Greece was under a brutal military dictatorship.The poor were wonderful people with tonnes of friends and the rich only cared about money and were ultimately miserable and alone.
Victoria Hislop - Fantastic Fiction Victoria Hislop - Fantastic Fiction
West of Almuñécar on the Costa del Sol, Richard visits the resort of Marbella accompanied by J G Ballard’s Cocaine Nights. There were no bereavement counsellors and people were not encouraged to grieve openly the way they are now. To me a good novel is that I'm so lost in the plot that I feel that I'm there, this book didn't come near that. There was simply too much stuff happening and too many characters to make anything in particularly meaningful in my view.From that day the lives of Dimitri and Katerina become entwined, with each other and with the story of the city itself.
Victoria Hislop Books in Order (Complete Series List) Victoria Hislop Books in Order (Complete Series List)
Our parents' lives, before they had us, can seem like another country, and it requires a deep longing to reach out across the years in understanding to give the quest real meaning. His moving tale follows the family’s misfortunes during the Spanish Civil War, telling how the battle of memory against forgetting is still being fought on all fronts. She is an English author who was born in London, England in 1959 but was raised in Tonbridge, Kent, and attended Tonbridge Grammar School before she read English at St. Depois de dois anos sem ler nada da autora, eis que me chegou às mãos o 3º livro de Victoria Hislop.I realised that much of the book is actually about children and their experiences of stigma and loss, so this has been a wonderful experience for me, to look at things through their eyes. The other evening she was propped up in bed tapping away on her laptop, when Ian sidled up behind her and tried to read the words on her screen.
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