Victoria Hislop

Avec le talent qu'on lui connaît, Victoria Hislop nous emmène au fil de dix nouvelles a travers les rues d'Athènes et les parcs ombragés des villages grecs. En évoquant leurs atmosphères si particulières, elle donne vie a un grand nombre de personnages inoubliables : un prêtre solitaire, deux frères qui n'arrêtent pas de se quereller, un étranger indésirable, une charmante pâtissière, ou encore un jeune marié a la mémoire défaillante.A la manière d'une aquarelliste, l'auteur de L'Île des oubliés explore les sentiments humains. Amour, loyauté, séparation, réconciliation... nul mouvement de l'âme n'échappe a son écriture envoûtante.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique. 'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail 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 more.

"Alexis, giovane archeologa inglese in crisi con il fidanzato Ed, rampante uomo d'azienda, va a Creta alla ricerca del misterioso passato di sua madre, di origine greca ma espatriata a Londra. Arrivata sull'isola, con una lettera di presentazione della madre stessa si reca da una vecchia signora, amica della famiglia della madre, che le raccontera dei suoi avi in tre epoche: gli anni '30, gli anni '50 e i giorni attuali. Protagoniste dell'intero racconto due donne, Anna (la bisnonna di Alexis) e sua sorella Maria, campionessa di ribellione e seduzione l'una, di operosita e discrezione l'altra. Quando sull'isola arriva un finanziere di passaggio, il fragile equilibrio familiare degli affetti si rompe: relazioni clandestine, figli naturali, omicidi passionali, malattie d'amore si susseguono fino a spingere la madre di Alexis, figlia segreta della defunta Anna, lontano da Creta, per sempre. In questo travagliato passato, Alexis trova la sua vera identita: una identita tormentata, passionale, volitiva, che da questo momento in poi non potra piu tradire. "

Dans sa boîte aux lettres, Ellie trouve, semaine après semaine, des cartes postales signées d'une simple initiale : A. Pourquoi lui parviennent-elles ? Qui en est l'expéditeur ? Portant l'

Una historia de amor imperecedero en un mundo gobernado por el odio, la guerra y la segregaci#n. Tesal#nica, 1917. Al tiempo que Dimitri Komninos llega al mundo, un descomunal incendio arrasa la ciudad en la que cristianos, jud#os y musulmanes conviven desde hace siglos. Cinco a#os m#s tarde, el ej#rcito turco destroza el hogar de Katerina Sarafoglou en Asia Menor. Katerina pierde a su madre en el caos reinante y llega a Grecia atravesando el mar Egeo. Pronto su vida se ver# #ntimamente ligada a la de Dimitri, mientras las guerras, las revoluciones y el odio desgarran a los habitantes de la ciudad. #De qu# tesoros y secretos del pasado son guardianes?#Podr#n transmitir su herencia, sus recuerdos, antes de que sea demasiado tarde?Ambos deber#n descubrir la forma de desenredar los complicados hilos de la memoria. La cr#tica ha dicho..."Una narraci#n inmejorable, como un tapiz, donde cada hebra se cose en su lugar y as# emergen las capas y la historia de las relaciones entre las personas presentes y pasadas."Sunday Express "Ambiciosa y arrolladora, llena de magn#ficos detalles."Sunday Times

1917, Thessalonique. Le jour de la naissance de Dimitris, un terrible incendie détruit la ville. Sa famille doit déménager dans les quartiers populaires. C’est là aussi que viennent s’installer des r

In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the Ozkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city's façade of glamour and success, tension is building.When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city, just two families remain. This is their story.

"Sonia e Maggie sono due giovani amiche inglesi, la prima sposata con un uomo piu anziano di lei e non troppo felice, la seconda single. Sono in vacanza a Granada per il compleanno di un loro amico e perche vogliono seguire un corso di salsa. Ma quella che sembrava una vacanza, diventa l'occasione perche segreti del passato vengano a galla. Grazie all'amicizia con un anziano barista - Miguel - le due donne poco a poco scoprono le ""verita"" del paese. La madre di Sonia, morta quando lei era appena nata, era infatti spagnola ma per anni aveva dovuto negare le sue origini, costretta dalle vicende politiche... e da una sua relazione con un oppositore al regime di Franco potrebbe essere nata Sonia. Chi e, infine, Miguel, questo anziano, misterioso depositario di mille storie? "

THE RETURN debuted at number two in the Sunday Times hardback fiction chart, and spent nine further weeks in the top ten.An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of passion, pain and pride at the heart of war-torn SpainBeneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet cafe, a chance conversation and an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war.Seventy years earlier, the cafe is home to the close-knit Ramirez family. In 1936, an army coup led by Franco shatters the country's fragile peace, and in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics and tragedy, everyone must take a side, fighting a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart.

In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the Ozkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city's facade of glamour and success, tension is building. When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city, just two families remain. This is their story.

Chypre, été 1972. La ville de Famagouste héberge la station balnéaire la plus prisée de la Méditerranée, où Chypriotes grecs et turcs vivent en parfaite harmonie. Un couple ambitieux y ouvre Le Sunri

Athens 1941. After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between Right- and Left-wing views when the Germans invade.Fifteen-year-old Themis comes from a family divided by these political differences. The Nazi occupation deepens the fault-lines between those she loves just as it reduces Greece to destitution. She watches friends die in the ensuing famine and is moved to commit acts of resistance.In the civil war that follows the end of the occupation, Themis joins the Communist army, where she experiences the extremes of love and hatred and the paradoxes presented by a war in which Greek fights Greek.Eventually imprisoned on the infamous islands of exile, Makronisos and then Trikeri, Themis encounters another prisoner whose life will entwine with her own in ways neither can foresee. And finds she must weigh her principles against her desire to escape and live.As she looks back on her life, Themis realises how tightly the personal and political can become entangled. While some wounds heal, others deepen.

A partir del viaje en solitario a Grecia que emprende una mujer motivada por las cartas que le envía desde allí un completo desconocido, Victoria Hislop construye una maravillosa historia sobre el amor a la vida y a la aventura.Una novela que hara que Grecia y sus paisajes permanezcan para siempre en la memoria del lector.Semana tras semana, llegaban las postales. Estaban dirigidas a alguien a quien Ellie no conocia, sin remitente, firmadas solo con una inicial: A.El cielo brillante, el mar azul, aquellas imagenes de Grecia que mostraban las postales iluminaban su dia a dia. Pero despues de seis meses, para decepcion de Ellie, dejaron de llegar. Sin embargo, con ellas, Ellie habia creado un paisaje en la pared de su apartamento que funciono como un embrujo. Debia visitar Grecia y ver aquellos escenarios con sus propios ojos.El dia en que Ellie parte rumbo a Atenas, a su casa llega un cuaderno en el que se relata la odisea de un hombre por tierras griegas. Conmovedora, sorprendente y oscura a ratos, la historia de A es la del descubrimiento de una cultura y del deseo tambien de vivir la vida con plenitud una vez mas.La critica ha dicho...La historia de amor de Hislop con Grecia continua y ...

'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars. All the stories in this volume are about life - happy, sad, mundane and extraordinary - it is captured here in all its rich variety. CONTRIBUTORS: Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Gilchrist, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Penelope Fitzgerald, Margaret Atwood, Penelope Lively, Anita Desai, Alice Munro, Elspeth Davie, Penelope Fitzgerald, Alice Walker, A. M. Homes, Anne Enright, Elizabeth Jolley, Jane Gardam, Alison Lurie, Nicola Barker, Jennifer Egan, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, A. S. Byatt, Maggie Gee, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Polly Samson, Helen Simpson and Stella Duffy.