Cartes Postales from Greece By Victoria Hislop Audiobook 1472223535 9781472223531 Literature Fiction Cartes Postales from Greece Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A. With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After six months, to her disappointment, they cease. But the montage she has created on the wall of her flat has cast a spell. She must see this country for herself. On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a mans odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, As tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture but also of a desire to live life to the full once . Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature Her first novel The Island held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide Victoria was the Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard Judy Summer Read competition. Pdf cartes postales from greeks Her second novel The Return was also a Sunday Times number one bestseller and her books have been translated into than twenty languages A short story collection One Cretan Evening was published in September and both a third novel The Thread is published in English in October and in Greek in N Victoria Hislop read English at Oxford and worked in publishing PR and as a journalist before becoming a novelist She is married with two children. Pdf cartes postales from greeks Her first novel The Island held the number one slot in the Sunday Times paperback charts for eight consecutive weeks and has sold over two million copies worldwide Victoria was the Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007 and won the Richard Judy Summer Read competition. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature Her second novel The Return was also a Sunday Times number one bestseller and her books have been translated into than twenty languages A short story collection One Cretan Evening was published in September and both a third novel The Thread is published in English in October and in Greek in November 2011 site_link 
Everyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of Greece I fell in love with that beautiful country and its people twenty years ago and have been lucky enough to visit twice a year ever since I haven t really gone off the beaten track sticking to the islands such as Corfu Crete Zakynthos Kos Rhodes Ithaka Kefalonia Lefkada and Kos We always travel early in the season and then later on and as it s usually fairly quiet we get to know the locals Our friends in Arillas in north west Corfu are almost like family we ve been visiting them for ten years. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature During our late night discussions usually over countless glasses of village red wine and shots of Metaxa or Ouzo but never never Tsipouru evil stuff we talk about the economy politics family tradition and generally put the world to rights In Cartes Postales From Greece Victoria Hislop brings to life those people that I ve come to love with their incredible hospitality and their zest for life Their anger at what is happening to their country their despair about the past are quite perfectly portrayed. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature Who knows if the tales people told me are true or false I suspect that some of them are complete fabrications others are exaggerations but perhaps some of them are real You can decide. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters The story begins with Ellie and the mysterious postcards that arrive through her letterbox Addressed to S Ibbotson and each signed with just an initial A Ellie realises that S Ibbotson was the previous occupant of her dreary flat in London and wonder who A is and what was their relationship and why do the messages on the back of the cards sound so sad The cards are all from Greece Ellie pins them up in her kitchen they bring a splash of sunshine into her otherwise dull life. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters On the spur of the moment Ellie decides that she will travel to Greece She wants to experience the places on the front of the postcard she s desperate for something than her boring job in wintry London On the morning that she leaves a notebook is delivered to her flat she stuffs it into her bag and departs for Athens. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters From there Cartes Postales From Greece becomes the story of A his stories of his travels through Greece all detailed in the notebook He recounts how he meets the locals he re tells the stories that they share with him He opens his heart to S Ibbotsen with honesty and quite painfully at times. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters Cartes Postales From Greece is beautifully illustrated with scenes from the places that A visits Victoria Hislop worked with Greek photographer Alexandros Kakolyris to create beautiful photographs to go with her words they are stunning and add so much to this gorgeous story. Pdf cartes postales from greeks The author has brought together stories from Grecian history and modern day tales and has created a novel that will delight her readers Anyone who has been to Greece will recognise these characters those sunsets those smells She does not shy away from the troubles that this country has suffered now and throughout history and her words go some way to explain why the Greek people are angry but also why they continue to love their homeland so much. Pdf cartes postales from greeks http randomthingsthroughmyletterbox Audiobook Audiobook I expected a novel with a story line It starts well I had hope but I felt disappointed on both counts Basically a book of short stories maybe I should have done my research before reading this For me Victoria definitely peeked with The Island I haven t enjoyed any of her other books since Audiobook je reviens Audiobook 1 1 5 Public 100 1799 1699 7 10 Audiobook March 19 2018 Almost in the middle of the book and as much as I adored the beginning I wasn t expecting short stories without the main one Here s what I want I want the girl who traveled from England to Greece to vacation and meet a postal sending guy to actually meet him The stories are not weird the author says they are but to me they are normal I felt really sorry for the state of modern Greece and its economic situation This is a country that depends entirely on tourism so I expect that things are going to get even worse for them if the people remain silent August 19 2019 I m planning on finishing the story I suppose my favorite short story from what I read is Air on a G String I like the photos in the book it gives the short stories a sense of reality especially that the stories move from one town to the next. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 1 The Boy in the Silver Suit A the mysterious sender of postcards sent Ellie a book he wrote journaling his Journey through Greece but it s not meant for Ellie to read but for his ex S who jilted him for unknown reasons and didn t travel to Greece to join him A is hurt heartbroken but is still in love with S so he decides to take their trip without her starting with Nafplio There while sitting in a cafe alone an old couple tell him a story of a man who sat in a cafe every day for 25 years alone the man was jilted by his bride on their wedding day and though his clan takes revenge instantly he waited for 25 years then killed her father and brother It s a sad story. Pdf cartes postales from greeks 2 Et in Arcadia Ego Afterward A heads to Arcadia and Tripoli he s bewitched by the beauty of the region s nature and to rest goes to a local bar where an angry artist serves there she is tired of the state of Greece and on the walls of the bar she has drawn and written a story A woman goes in search for the grave of a father she never knew in a village ruled by unfriendly men her car gets stolen The woman comes to the conclusion that Arcadia isn t a place for women. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 3 Air on a G String Feeling refreshed after his trip to Arcadia A heads to Kalamata and in a cafe another old couple tells him about the best musician to have come to play in their town A violist they named Antoni who was so good that they served him lunch and dinner for entertaining them with his music The most beautiful woman in town is named Magda she is barren and a spinster but she and the musician fall for each other and have a one night stand he gives her his G string and she gives him herself. Pdf cartes postales from greeks 4 Never on a Tuesday A heads to Patras Olympia He also shares that he hasn t been able to listen to music for months since his heartbreak and for the first time he started to listen to music again There he also meets another old couple who tell him that Tuesdays are considered sort of cursed in Greece because it s the day that Mehmed the Conqueror conquered Constantinople modern day Istanbul and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire I m actually proud of that as a Muslim but I get how they feel but making it into a cursed day is a bit too much On 29 May the people of Greece consider the date cursed so a rich man who owns a chain of hotels reached the old age of 75 and wanted to retire and give his empire to one of his sons so that the business stays as one his two sons are spoiled he tasks them of making each a hotel and runs it for two years the one with the highest profit will get the whole fortune As an Arab I think the man is stupid He didn t teach his sons the business and didn t guide them but wanted them to succeed all at once adding that I don t believe in this way of writing the inheritance I think that s why many businesses finish there Both children fail one loses his hotel and reputation because he was cheap the other became a man in debt and a killer People superstition blamed the date but again that s stupid it s the father s fault that he lost EVERYTHING he worked for. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature 5 Lead Us Not Into Temptation A heads to a church of a saint who spread Christianity in Greece I don t understand how people think in any religion that praying to the dead whoever they are can grant them anything They are just human good or bad and they are not even granting themselves miracles Pray to God it s better for you for He stays alive and never dies The old woman who cleans the new church gets sick so her granddaughter who is young and healthy cleans it for her all the men start going to church in the time she cleans until she finishes to admire her the priest is happy candles are selling the wives however weren t. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 7 Holy Water8 In Love with Love9 Man on a Mountaintop10 Je Reviens11 Laterna Poverty and Honour12 Honeymoon13 Know Thyself14 The Lonely Wife15 Waiting in the Wings Audiobook I can t actually believe it myself but Cartes Postales from Greece is my first book by Victoria Hislop but what an introduction to this author it was I ve read this book in one day which for me is like a world record not because I am reading so slowly or something but because life always gets in the way However this time I put everything aside as this book has just drawn me in and I didn t want to put it down for a single second. Literature fiction cartes postales from greeks This novel doesn t contain a storyline per se as it consist of short stories It starts introducing us to Ellie who is receiving postcards from Greece postcards addressed to someone other but still coming through her letterbox postcards signed with A Ellie pins all of them on her wall they are a real sunbeam in her otherwise grim and cloudy life But one day on the spur of the moment she decides that she will travel to Greece there is nothing that keeps her in London On the day of her departure a notebook arrives a notebook that she takes with her on her travels and discovers that it is also written by A And here is where the short stories told by A start stories of his travels through Greece recounts of his meetings with the Greek people and his re telling the stories that the locals shared with him after offering him a place to sleep and something to eat. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters This book only confirmed my beliefs that I want to see Greece It was like reading partly myths partly fiction and partly non fiction and I loved this perfect mix The stories were so different funny sad heart breaking seeming possible or not possible to happen It deals not only with feelings relationships family bonds tradition but also with the very present state of economy or politics and the powerlessness and anger of the characters are so realistically portrayed What is also so exceptional for this book is the fact that it is full of photos illustrating the scenes or places that A visits The photos are beautiful and they helped me to imagine and see the places even better it was great to not only imagine things but also see them how they really are. Pdf cartes postales from greeks The author has a brilliant way describing the nature places and bringing all the scents sunsets to life You could easily see that Victoria Hislop loves Greece and Greek people and that she very well understands them their history and their tradition and that she has a lot of respect to all of the above mentioned This book is written in the most unusual way and it worked incredibly well for me It is like reading stories within a story They are so different and they are about different issues but I think that there are some things that they have in common there is always a message in them there is always love and hope and that in the battle of good against evil it is usually good that wins They are inspiring and they are beautiful those stories and they are written in incredibly vivid and descriptive way I think I can t say that I have my favourite story as I loved all of them They are all unforgettable poignant and so true to life It was quite emotional unique book and I am incredibly happy that I was able to read it it is for sure going to stay with me for a long time and I will be getting back to it Highly recommended not only if you love Greece Copy provided by the publisher in return for an honest review Audiobook Audiobook No Victoria Hislop does not appear to have learned to write better since her first book If anything this one is even worse in its writing Admittedly she is observant and the grains of interesting ness scattered through the pages were just enough to keep me hanging in there and reading until the end Skipping whole paragraphs but still reading Silently cursing and getting annoyed with the writing but still reading V. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters So Cartes Postales from Greece starts with obvious preparation for a cozy adventure first a Welsh woman in London with no ties no close family or friends no serious job leaves everything behind on a whim and goes off on a solitary tour of Greece Then a man with no obvious ties no family or friends no job abandoned by his beloved embarks on a solitary tour of Greece They are both without a plan simply drifting around the country Their thought processes are expressed in very similar writing without any distinct individuality the lives of both of them are portrayed in the same way by piling descriptions of repetitive routines paragraph after paragraph In the following weeks and months everywhere I stopped people talked to me Most were warm and kind and if they were not immediately so then my attempts to speak Greek would often break the ice Many of them told me stories I listened and noted it sic down each day learning surprising things about this country and new things about myself The voices of strangers poured into the void filling the silence you d left p. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 19 By the way who writes a diary immediately or shortly after the events but makes them sound as if they took place years ago All of this is the groundwork for the unrelated stories that will be taking place within stories within stories top score is 5 if you count the reader reading about Ellie reading about Anthony writing about Ariadne narrating about Icarus s dad As I ve said elsewhere I am not a fan of the story within a story approach I think it shows an inability to maintain a plot which is sufficiently interesting in itself. Literature fiction cartes postales from greeks As for the sub stories the opening one is based on the premise that a bride runs off with another man while the groom waits for her with the guests in the church Well I don t know about Greece but I know how these things are traditionally conducted in its neighbouring and culturally very similar if a bit less religiously extreme Bulgaria the groom DOES NOT wait in the church He goes to the bride s home with the best man and a bunch of mates plus a gypsy orchestra for good measure and abducts his bride There is no waiting around for her to turn up at the church he barges into her parents house and takes her to the church himself so there is no chance she can run away on the morning of the wedding From that nonsense onwards I was not convinced by this tale The story of the violinist had some promise Antonio S t r a and I thought yes please please leave it at that let there be a bit of subtlety but then like a bull in a china shop Victoria Hislop screams it out loud in case some reader s been dumb enough not to work it out It s like this throughout the book there is no room left for the reader s imagination everything is told once in the sub stories and analysed over again by Anthony Je Reviens This is for me the best story about belonging to a nation and about national identity The problems I have with it though are two 1 I can t understand why Penelope of the present day would decide to tell this story to a total stranger and 2 How does she know the intimate details of what exactly happened inside the taverna during the German occupation between two people or in the head of the grandmother Evangelia at the flag waving parade The story itself is good or shall I say both sub stories in it are good but they are clumsily inserted in the frame of Anthony s collection of anecdotes This recurring problem has been spoiling the whole book even irritatingly than it did in The Island. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters There are some continuity errors among the stories too which also undermine the value of the whole work In Honeymoon which stems from the highly unlikely scenario in which a rented top of the range Landrover runs out of petrol before the passengers notice the first night it s gone nine thirty p. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 296 but the woman notices the pastel colours of the buildings and the pots of basil hanging from the balconies Later on we read that the streets are unlit that night so how does she see the colours and the basil if there s no daylight The second night it s only 9 p. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 225 Remarkable I shall remember not to go anywhere near Victoria Hislop s books again for they are not worth the time Hopefully I ve saved someone else a day or two so they can read something better Audiobook Well written stories from Greece in recognisable Victoria s style combined myths legends and true stories that at the same time bring you knowledge of landscape Greek history culture way of living family relationships traditions customs Pure pleasure Ne verujem da e biti srpskog prevoda Audiobook
Week after week the postcards arrive addressed to a name Ellie does not know with no return address each signed with an initial A With their bright skies blue seas and alluring images of Greece these cartes postales brighten her life After six months to her disappointment they cease But the montage she has created on the wall of her flat has cast a spell She must see this country for herself On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens a notebook arrives Its pages tell the story of a man s odyssey through Greece Moving surprising and sometimes dark A s tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture but also of a desire to live life to the full once Cartes Postales from Greece.,
Everyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of Greece I fell in love with that beautiful country and its people twenty years ago and have been lucky enough to visit twice a year ever since I haven t really gone off the beaten track sticking to the islands such as Corfu Crete Zakynthos Kos Rhodes Ithaka Kefalonia Lefkada and Kos We always travel early in the season and then later on and as it s usually fairly quiet we get to know the locals Our friends in Arillas in north west Corfu are almost like family we ve been visiting them for ten years. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature During our late night discussions usually over countless glasses of village red wine and shots of Metaxa or Ouzo but never never Tsipouru evil stuff we talk about the economy politics family tradition and generally put the world to rights In Cartes Postales From Greece Victoria Hislop brings to life those people that I ve come to love with their incredible hospitality and their zest for life Their anger at what is happening to their country their despair about the past are quite perfectly portrayed. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature Who knows if the tales people told me are true or false I suspect that some of them are complete fabrications others are exaggerations but perhaps some of them are real You can decide. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters The story begins with Ellie and the mysterious postcards that arrive through her letterbox Addressed to S Ibbotson and each signed with just an initial A Ellie realises that S Ibbotson was the previous occupant of her dreary flat in London and wonder who A is and what was their relationship and why do the messages on the back of the cards sound so sad The cards are all from Greece Ellie pins them up in her kitchen they bring a splash of sunshine into her otherwise dull life. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters On the spur of the moment Ellie decides that she will travel to Greece She wants to experience the places on the front of the postcard she s desperate for something than her boring job in wintry London On the morning that she leaves a notebook is delivered to her flat she stuffs it into her bag and departs for Athens. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters From there Cartes Postales From Greece becomes the story of A his stories of his travels through Greece all detailed in the notebook He recounts how he meets the locals he re tells the stories that they share with him He opens his heart to S Ibbotsen with honesty and quite painfully at times. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters Cartes Postales From Greece is beautifully illustrated with scenes from the places that A visits Victoria Hislop worked with Greek photographer Alexandros Kakolyris to create beautiful photographs to go with her words they are stunning and add so much to this gorgeous story. Pdf cartes postales from greeks The author has brought together stories from Grecian history and modern day tales and has created a novel that will delight her readers Anyone who has been to Greece will recognise these characters those sunsets those smells She does not shy away from the troubles that this country has suffered now and throughout history and her words go some way to explain why the Greek people are angry but also why they continue to love their homeland so much. Pdf cartes postales from greeks http randomthingsthroughmyletterbox Audiobook Audiobook I expected a novel with a story line It starts well I had hope but I felt disappointed on both counts Basically a book of short stories maybe I should have done my research before reading this For me Victoria definitely peeked with The Island I haven t enjoyed any of her other books since Audiobook je reviens Audiobook 1 1 5 Public 100 1799 1699 7 10 Audiobook March 19 2018 Almost in the middle of the book and as much as I adored the beginning I wasn t expecting short stories without the main one Here s what I want I want the girl who traveled from England to Greece to vacation and meet a postal sending guy to actually meet him The stories are not weird the author says they are but to me they are normal I felt really sorry for the state of modern Greece and its economic situation This is a country that depends entirely on tourism so I expect that things are going to get even worse for them if the people remain silent August 19 2019 I m planning on finishing the story I suppose my favorite short story from what I read is Air on a G String I like the photos in the book it gives the short stories a sense of reality especially that the stories move from one town to the next. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 1 The Boy in the Silver Suit A the mysterious sender of postcards sent Ellie a book he wrote journaling his Journey through Greece but it s not meant for Ellie to read but for his ex S who jilted him for unknown reasons and didn t travel to Greece to join him A is hurt heartbroken but is still in love with S so he decides to take their trip without her starting with Nafplio There while sitting in a cafe alone an old couple tell him a story of a man who sat in a cafe every day for 25 years alone the man was jilted by his bride on their wedding day and though his clan takes revenge instantly he waited for 25 years then killed her father and brother It s a sad story. Pdf cartes postales from greeks 2 Et in Arcadia Ego Afterward A heads to Arcadia and Tripoli he s bewitched by the beauty of the region s nature and to rest goes to a local bar where an angry artist serves there she is tired of the state of Greece and on the walls of the bar she has drawn and written a story A woman goes in search for the grave of a father she never knew in a village ruled by unfriendly men her car gets stolen The woman comes to the conclusion that Arcadia isn t a place for women. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 3 Air on a G String Feeling refreshed after his trip to Arcadia A heads to Kalamata and in a cafe another old couple tells him about the best musician to have come to play in their town A violist they named Antoni who was so good that they served him lunch and dinner for entertaining them with his music The most beautiful woman in town is named Magda she is barren and a spinster but she and the musician fall for each other and have a one night stand he gives her his G string and she gives him herself. Pdf cartes postales from greeks 4 Never on a Tuesday A heads to Patras Olympia He also shares that he hasn t been able to listen to music for months since his heartbreak and for the first time he started to listen to music again There he also meets another old couple who tell him that Tuesdays are considered sort of cursed in Greece because it s the day that Mehmed the Conqueror conquered Constantinople modern day Istanbul and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire I m actually proud of that as a Muslim but I get how they feel but making it into a cursed day is a bit too much On 29 May the people of Greece consider the date cursed so a rich man who owns a chain of hotels reached the old age of 75 and wanted to retire and give his empire to one of his sons so that the business stays as one his two sons are spoiled he tasks them of making each a hotel and runs it for two years the one with the highest profit will get the whole fortune As an Arab I think the man is stupid He didn t teach his sons the business and didn t guide them but wanted them to succeed all at once adding that I don t believe in this way of writing the inheritance I think that s why many businesses finish there Both children fail one loses his hotel and reputation because he was cheap the other became a man in debt and a killer People superstition blamed the date but again that s stupid it s the father s fault that he lost EVERYTHING he worked for. Literature fiction cartes postales from greek literature 5 Lead Us Not Into Temptation A heads to a church of a saint who spread Christianity in Greece I don t understand how people think in any religion that praying to the dead whoever they are can grant them anything They are just human good or bad and they are not even granting themselves miracles Pray to God it s better for you for He stays alive and never dies The old woman who cleans the new church gets sick so her granddaughter who is young and healthy cleans it for her all the men start going to church in the time she cleans until she finishes to admire her the priest is happy candles are selling the wives however weren t. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 7 Holy Water8 In Love with Love9 Man on a Mountaintop10 Je Reviens11 Laterna Poverty and Honour12 Honeymoon13 Know Thyself14 The Lonely Wife15 Waiting in the Wings Audiobook I can t actually believe it myself but Cartes Postales from Greece is my first book by Victoria Hislop but what an introduction to this author it was I ve read this book in one day which for me is like a world record not because I am reading so slowly or something but because life always gets in the way However this time I put everything aside as this book has just drawn me in and I didn t want to put it down for a single second. Literature fiction cartes postales from greeks This novel doesn t contain a storyline per se as it consist of short stories It starts introducing us to Ellie who is receiving postcards from Greece postcards addressed to someone other but still coming through her letterbox postcards signed with A Ellie pins all of them on her wall they are a real sunbeam in her otherwise grim and cloudy life But one day on the spur of the moment she decides that she will travel to Greece there is nothing that keeps her in London On the day of her departure a notebook arrives a notebook that she takes with her on her travels and discovers that it is also written by A And here is where the short stories told by A start stories of his travels through Greece recounts of his meetings with the Greek people and his re telling the stories that the locals shared with him after offering him a place to sleep and something to eat. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters This book only confirmed my beliefs that I want to see Greece It was like reading partly myths partly fiction and partly non fiction and I loved this perfect mix The stories were so different funny sad heart breaking seeming possible or not possible to happen It deals not only with feelings relationships family bonds tradition but also with the very present state of economy or politics and the powerlessness and anger of the characters are so realistically portrayed What is also so exceptional for this book is the fact that it is full of photos illustrating the scenes or places that A visits The photos are beautiful and they helped me to imagine and see the places even better it was great to not only imagine things but also see them how they really are. Pdf cartes postales from greeks The author has a brilliant way describing the nature places and bringing all the scents sunsets to life You could easily see that Victoria Hislop loves Greece and Greek people and that she very well understands them their history and their tradition and that she has a lot of respect to all of the above mentioned This book is written in the most unusual way and it worked incredibly well for me It is like reading stories within a story They are so different and they are about different issues but I think that there are some things that they have in common there is always a message in them there is always love and hope and that in the battle of good against evil it is usually good that wins They are inspiring and they are beautiful those stories and they are written in incredibly vivid and descriptive way I think I can t say that I have my favourite story as I loved all of them They are all unforgettable poignant and so true to life It was quite emotional unique book and I am incredibly happy that I was able to read it it is for sure going to stay with me for a long time and I will be getting back to it Highly recommended not only if you love Greece Copy provided by the publisher in return for an honest review Audiobook Audiobook No Victoria Hislop does not appear to have learned to write better since her first book If anything this one is even worse in its writing Admittedly she is observant and the grains of interesting ness scattered through the pages were just enough to keep me hanging in there and reading until the end Skipping whole paragraphs but still reading Silently cursing and getting annoyed with the writing but still reading V. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters So Cartes Postales from Greece starts with obvious preparation for a cozy adventure first a Welsh woman in London with no ties no close family or friends no serious job leaves everything behind on a whim and goes off on a solitary tour of Greece Then a man with no obvious ties no family or friends no job abandoned by his beloved embarks on a solitary tour of Greece They are both without a plan simply drifting around the country Their thought processes are expressed in very similar writing without any distinct individuality the lives of both of them are portrayed in the same way by piling descriptions of repetitive routines paragraph after paragraph In the following weeks and months everywhere I stopped people talked to me Most were warm and kind and if they were not immediately so then my attempts to speak Greek would often break the ice Many of them told me stories I listened and noted it sic down each day learning surprising things about this country and new things about myself The voices of strangers poured into the void filling the silence you d left p. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 19 By the way who writes a diary immediately or shortly after the events but makes them sound as if they took place years ago All of this is the groundwork for the unrelated stories that will be taking place within stories within stories top score is 5 if you count the reader reading about Ellie reading about Anthony writing about Ariadne narrating about Icarus s dad As I ve said elsewhere I am not a fan of the story within a story approach I think it shows an inability to maintain a plot which is sufficiently interesting in itself. Literature fiction cartes postales from greeks As for the sub stories the opening one is based on the premise that a bride runs off with another man while the groom waits for her with the guests in the church Well I don t know about Greece but I know how these things are traditionally conducted in its neighbouring and culturally very similar if a bit less religiously extreme Bulgaria the groom DOES NOT wait in the church He goes to the bride s home with the best man and a bunch of mates plus a gypsy orchestra for good measure and abducts his bride There is no waiting around for her to turn up at the church he barges into her parents house and takes her to the church himself so there is no chance she can run away on the morning of the wedding From that nonsense onwards I was not convinced by this tale The story of the violinist had some promise Antonio S t r a and I thought yes please please leave it at that let there be a bit of subtlety but then like a bull in a china shop Victoria Hislop screams it out loud in case some reader s been dumb enough not to work it out It s like this throughout the book there is no room left for the reader s imagination everything is told once in the sub stories and analysed over again by Anthony Je Reviens This is for me the best story about belonging to a nation and about national identity The problems I have with it though are two 1 I can t understand why Penelope of the present day would decide to tell this story to a total stranger and 2 How does she know the intimate details of what exactly happened inside the taverna during the German occupation between two people or in the head of the grandmother Evangelia at the flag waving parade The story itself is good or shall I say both sub stories in it are good but they are clumsily inserted in the frame of Anthony s collection of anecdotes This recurring problem has been spoiling the whole book even irritatingly than it did in The Island. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters There are some continuity errors among the stories too which also undermine the value of the whole work In Honeymoon which stems from the highly unlikely scenario in which a rented top of the range Landrover runs out of petrol before the passengers notice the first night it s gone nine thirty p. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 296 but the woman notices the pastel colours of the buildings and the pots of basil hanging from the balconies Later on we read that the streets are unlit that night so how does she see the colours and the basil if there s no daylight The second night it s only 9 p. Pdf cartes postales from greek letters 225 Remarkable I shall remember not to go anywhere near Victoria Hislop s books again for they are not worth the time Hopefully I ve saved someone else a day or two so they can read something better Audiobook Well written stories from Greece in recognisable Victoria s style combined myths legends and true stories that at the same time bring you knowledge of landscape Greek history culture way of living family relationships traditions customs Pure pleasure Ne verujem da e biti srpskog prevoda Audiobook | Cartes Postales from Greece By Victoria Hislop |
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