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Delahunt, Meaghan

 
9781847081810: To the Island

Sinopsis

He disappeared. That's all she really knew. finds him, a wary, tormented man living in self-imposed exile. Slowly Lena unlocks the secrets of her father's past, and in getting to know him begins to understand the grim realities of contemporary Greek history. Like many politically active Greeks, Andreas was arrested and tortured during the rule of the Colonels in the sixties, disappearing for several years without trace. evokes the currents and cross-currents between individuals, within families and in broader society. And in Lena and Andreas's stories, it shows how difficult it is to confront our personal and collective pasts - and the terrible consequences of being unable to do so.

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Meaghan Delahunt is the author of The Red Book and In the Blue House, which was longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize, won the Saltire First Book Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year prize and a Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. She is an award-winning short-story writer and her stories have been widely anthologized and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She lectures in creative writing at the University of St Andrews. Born in Melbourne, Meaghan Delahunt now lives in Edinburgh.

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9781847082749: To the Island

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ISBN 10:  1847082742 ISBN 13:  9781847082749
Editorial: Granta Books, 2012
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