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Zusatztext Modern Greek history! from the Nazi occupation to the present-day economic crisis and riots! is integral to many of the stories. The style is limpid! echoed in the simple line drawings that accompany each tale. They slip down like ice cream on a hot day Informationen zum Autor Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of eight books, including The Island , The Return , The Thread , The Sunrise , Those Who are Loved , The Last Dance and Other Stories and Cartes Postales from Greece . Her books have been translated into forty languages. Her most recent novel, One August Night , returned to Crete in the long-anticipated sequel to The Island and spent twelve weeks in the Top 10 hardback fiction charts. Victoria was executive producer on the adaptations of The Island, Cartes Postales and One August Night for Greek television - and recently took part in Dancing with the Stars , also on Greek television. Victoria divides her time between England and Greece and, in 2020, was granted honorary citizenship by the President of Greece. She was recently granted an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sheffield and is patron of Knossos 2025, which has raised funds to rebuild the new research centre at one of Greece's most significant archaeological sites. She is also on the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles. Klappentext Paperback edition of Hislop's collection of 10 short stories set in Greece. From the author of bestselling novels "The Island, The Return" and "The Thread", 3 of these were originally published as an ebook. Like the hardback, this edition features 7 more tales, of love and loyalty, separation and reconciliation, captured in Hislop's unique voice. Vorwort Ten short stories by the million-copy bestselling author of The Island, The Return and The Thread collected in a beautiful Demy-format hardback edition. Zusammenfassung Ten short stories by the million-copy bestselling author of The Island, The Return and The Thread collected in a beautiful Demy-format hardback edition....
About the author
Inspired by a visit to Spinalonga, the abandoned Greek leprosy colony, Victoria Hislop wrote The Island in 2005. It became an international bestseller and a 26-part Greek TV series. She was named Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards and is now an ambassador for Lepra. Her affection for the Mediterranean then took her to Spain, and in the number one bestseller The Return she wrote about the painful secrets of its civil war. In The Thread, Victoria returned to Greece to tell the turbulent tale of Thessaloniki and its people across the twentieth century. Shortlisted for a British Book Award, it confirmed her reputation as an inspirational storyteller. It was followed by her much-admired Greece-set collection, The Last Dance and Other Stories. Her fourth novel, The Sunrise, was published to widespread acclaim, and was a Sunday Times number one bestseller. Victoria Hislop's last book, Cartes Postales from Greece, is fiction illustrated with photographs. It was a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and one of the biggest selling books of 2016.
Victoria divides her time between England and Greece.
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