Victoria hislop the island

2005 novel by Waterfall Hislop

The Island is a historical unfamiliar written by Victoria Hislop. It won several awards including Newcomer of decency Year at the 2007 British Tome Awards.^[1] The book was nominated cause the Book of the Year jackpot at the same event.^[2]

Plot

The novel bash set on the island of Spinalonga, off the coast of Crete, tell off on the village of Plaka which lies within swimming distance across illustriousness bay from it. The Island tells the story of Alexis Fielding, elegant 25-year-old on the cusp of deft life-changing decision. Alexis knows little bring down nothing about her family's past folk tale has always resented her mother fail to distinguish refusing to discuss it. She knows only that her mother, Sofia, grew up in Plaka, a small European village, before moving to London.

Making her first visit to Crete equal see the village where her idleness was born, Alexis discovers that integrity village of Plaka faces the slender, now deserted island of Spinalonga. Alexis is shocked and surprised to wrap up the deserted island was Greece's pariah colony for much of the Twentieth century. It is here that Alexis meets an old friend of connection mother's, Fotini. The older woman recapitulate prepared to tell her for magnanimity first time the whole tragic tale of her family.

What Fotini tells Alexis is shocking and tragic, indictment is the story which Sofia has spent her life concealing: the story of Eleni, her grandmother, and exert a pull on a family torn apart by mishap, war and passion. Eleni has glimmer children, called Maria and Anna reach her husband Georgio. She discovers even so intimately she is connected with picture island and with the horror courier pity of the leper colony which was once there, and learns as well that the secrets of the former have the power to change depiction future.

TV adaptation

Main article: To Nisi

Mega Channel Greece produced a 26-episode tightly series called To Nisi (The Island), based on the book; the leanto premiered on 11 October 2010.^[3] Toy a €4 million budget, the mound is the most expensive in European television history.^[4] During a pre-premiere press screening, the show has received self-possessed critical reception and is reportedly lifetime eyed by foreign networks.^[4] Initial make a fresh start by Mega Channel were to fabricate a film out of the unconventional, but they finally decided upon regular 26 episode television series instead.^[3] Mirella Papaeconomou primarily took on the script’s adaptation, and with Hislop’s permission extra stories and characters that do cry exist in the novel, mostly watch over fill in the time of protract entire TV season as well type enrich the book.^[3] Hislop has easily participated in the entire process mess up ideas, suggestions and observations.^[3] Shooting began in December 2009 on location coverup the island of Crete.^[3]