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Victoria Hislop
1) The return
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Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet cafe will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of the Spanish Civil War. Seventy years earlier, in the Ramirez family's cafe, Concha and Pablo's children relish an atmosphere of hope. Antonio is a serious young teacher, Ignacio a flamboyant matador, and Emilio a skilled musician. Their sister, Mercedes, is a spirited...
2) The island
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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...
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"Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in the crowd of refugees clambering for boats to Greece. Landing in Thessaloniki's harbor,...
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A "novel about loyalty, love, and resilience in the face of tremendous upheaval--a saga of survival set during the 1974 Cypriot coup d'e̹tat that tells the intersecting stories of three families whose lives are decimated when brewing ethnic tensions erupt into conflict"--Amazon.com.
5) Nitʹ
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Azbuka
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
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"Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ - kolybelʹ evropeĭskoĭ t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ii. Saloniki - krupneĭshiĭ gorod-port na severe strany, drevniĭ gorod, nazvannyĭ v chestʹ sestry Aleksandra Makedonskogo. Gorod, v kotorom vekami zhili li︠u︡di raznykh nat︠s︡ionalʹnosteĭ i veroispovedaniĭ. "Nitʹ" - blesti︠a︡shchiĭ rasskaz o druzhbe i li︠u︡bvi, vernosti i predatelʹstve. Zakhvatyvai︠u︡shchai︠a︡ semeĭnai︠a︡ saga, nasyshchennai︠a︡...
