English former movie star Lana invited her friends to her private Greek island each year to escape the long, dark British Winter. Elliot, our narrator and her closest friend, tells the story of the last trip to the island, where a murder takes place during a furious gale that cuts them off from civilization. He …
I think what strikes you first about de Bernieres is how human is writing is. It's mundane, describes the ordinary, or perhaps ordinary people caught up in history, in change. While war wages around the sleeping, pastoral island of Cephallonia, for example, goats must still be milked, fathers scolded and meals shared, distant politics debated, …
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