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    The Island (Paperback) By (author) Victoria Hislop

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    Short Description for The IslandThe acclaimed million-copy number one bestseller
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  • Brilliant Read3

    a Book Depository customer Couldn't put this book down. I didn't personally choose it; it was the book of the month for my reading group. Characters are lovely and the story/plot ebbs and flows like the up and downs in everyday life. Heartbreaking one moment joyful the next. Enjoy - I did. by a Book Depository customer

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    a Book Depository customer "A truely wonderful book that embodies the best of all attributes that combine to ensure a read that transports you through time and place, gifted with descriptions that leave you feeling you really know the characters and island and having been on the "story" journey first-hand with the central characters and not through the printed page. I can highly recommend this book." by a Book Depository customer

  • Misleading inaccuracies3

    a Book Depository customer "This book was a gift from a friend who had vivited me in Greece. She wrote "enjoy the read" and I did, except for the number of mistakes I found concerning the non-medical background. The name should be Fotini. On page 106 (of this edition), the greeting with the baker Kyritsis is the wrong way round. In Crete it is the stranger in the village who makes the first greeting, traditionally. Graveyards in Grece are outside the town or village, although they may get engulfed with later development (page 240). The Kazantzakis novel is "Freedom or Death" (page 303), an entirely different meaning than the title the author gives.
    But most glaring is the mistake, basic to much of the plot (pages 149-153). Saints Helen and Constantine are mother and son, definitely not husband and wife, ...lovers as Victoria Hislop presumes! And in the Greek orthodox Church, with the exception of Christ Himself (Christmas) it is not the birthday which is celebrated as the Saint Day, but the date of death, the joyful entering into heaven.
    Clearly the author just presumed that what she or others observed was the true social and religious system in Crete, and made no effort to get informed advice. What a pity. and the lapse in historical accuracy is most regrettable.
    " by a Book Depository customer

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