"The island" by Victoria Hislop
She was Alexis's great grandmother. Eleni got leprosy. It
was a disease, what had no cure at this far. All people, who had leprosy, were sent to a leper
colony to Spinalonga. In this colony life wasn't so bad as people were expecting. However, they
were like prisoners there. On this island, those who went there, they died there although. But they
had a school, a church. Eleni got two daughters Anna and Maria. They were little, when their
mother left. Their father, Georgiu, grew them up. Eleni had a serious cold and she died when she
was about 40. Also was described World War II, what was at this time.
Next generation, what was described, was Anna's and Maria's life-story. Now they had
grown up. Anna married with Andreas and left form Planka. She was self-centred and visited his
father really rarely. But Maria loved his father very much and he was the most important person
to her. She lived at home with father and took care of him. Anna had a lover, Manoli