YANNIS: The first book in a continuing saga of a Cretan family (Cretan Saga)

Darby, Beryl

ISBN 10: 0955427800 / ISBN 13: 9780955427800

Verlag: JACH, 2006

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Exiled to a crumbling island and left to die, one young man refuses to let the forgotten be forgotten.

Yannis Christoforakis is the brightest boy in his Cretan village — a farmer’s son who wins a scholarship to the city, falls in love with history, and dares to dream of a life beyond the olive groves. Then a doctor’s verdict shatters everything. Diagnosed with leprosy in 1920s Heraklion, he is stripped of his future, separated from his family, and shipped first to a brutal Athenian hospital ward and then to Spinalonga: a crumbling, half-ruined island in the Gulf of Elounda where the Greek state dumps its lepers and waits for them to disappear.

But Yannis cannot disappear. Not while people are living in collapsed houses and surviving on rotting food. Not while the authorities ignore every plea. Armed with nothing but his education, his stubbornness, and a fierce, inconvenient sense of justice, Yannis begins the slow, painful work of turning a place of despair into something that looks, against all odds, like a community.

Then the Second World War reaches Crete — and the island is cut off entirely.

If the German occupiers have their way, Spinalonga’s inhabitants will simply be starved into silence. For Yannis, the fight is no longer about dignity or rights. It is about survival itself — his own and that of every man and woman who has come to depend on him. And the people he loves most on the mainland are running out of time too.

Book One of the Cretan Saga, Yannis is a sweeping, decades-long saga of resilience, love, loss, and the unbreakable human need to belong. With a slow-burn love story at its heart and a cast of richly drawn characters — from a fierce village midwife and a gambling taverna-owner to a tireless country priest and a one-armed woman who tends her geraniums through everything history throws at her — this is a novel for readers who believe that ordinary lives, bravely lived, are the stuff of great literature.

Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop’s The Island, Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.

A richly researched historical family saga set against the real history of Spinalonga — Greece’s last active leprosy colony — Yannis combines epic sweep with intimate emotional depth. Expect multi-generational family drama, wartime survival fiction, slow-burn romance, and a deeply redemptive arc that will stay with you long after the last page.

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“Fabulous, fabulous book! I bought this after having it recommended by our tour guide for an afternoon trip we did whilst staying in Elounda on Crete. She said that anyone who had enjoyed reading Victoria Hislop’s The Island would absolutely love this book - and she was right! It’s so much more detailed and gives you a really good insight into how harshly the lepers on Spinalonga were treated and how they eventually managed to create their own little community against all the odds, whilst at the same time being a cracking good story of one man’s life. An extremely moving and inspiring book that gets you involved with Yannis and his family right from the beginning to the very end. I can’t wait to start reading the next one in the series!” Real 5-Star Reader Review

“A great read - bringing the story of Spinalonga to life. Having been a big fan of The Island, I was interested to read about Yannis - being set at a similar time, also on the island of Spinalonga. It was excellent - full of interesting characters that you wanted to find out more about - and comparable in the sense that both bring the island to life and the struggles of the people there - with real events being used to create fictional characters and stories. Would definitely recommend.” Real 5-Star Reader Review

Bibliografische Details

Titel: YANNIS: The first book in a continuing saga ...
Verlag: JACH
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good