The Eagle of Spinalonga eBook Nike Azoros
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Nikos is twenty two years old, handsome, clever and just graduated law school when he finds out he has leprosy. He is sent into exile to Spinalonga, a rock island of Crete where there is no food, no electricity, no medical help, no supplies, nothing. He catches an eagle as a unique way to source food then, armed with his education and natural instincts he decides to create a life of dignity for the inhabitants of Spinalonga in the style of the city state system of Ancient Greece. Pavlos a thug criminal sent there by the state from prison does everything in his power to maintain chaos and terror so as to keep control of the island. World War 2 breaks out and the Nazis invade and inflict horrors upon the Greek people. Nikos and the people of Spinalonga outsmart the Nazis and play a major role in the resistance.
The Eagle of Spinalonga eBook Nike Azoros
Nikos stands in the church attending his own funeral. The priest instructs him on the manner of the service and tells him when he is dead. Alive in body, dead to the church, his townspeople, his family and the government, Nikos must leave his home never to return. His story is one that will wrench the heart while it details the human spirit that overcomes even the worst of disease and destruction.There was a time when leprosy was a disease thought to be easily transmitted. A time when there was no cure, no treatment and no hope. At this time Nikos is banished forever to the tiny island of Spinalonga off the Greek coast. With only each other the residents have to try to find a way to survive. But Nikos, unlike many others, decides he will find a way to overcome the hardship and endure.
This beautifully written, well researched novel brings an era of history to life. Encompassing several decades, including WWII, the story of the exiled is one which wrench the heart digging deep into human emotion and behavior.
Usually after I read and review a book I delete it from my Kindle or pass along the hard copy to a friend. In this case I will be keeping the novel to read again. I highly recommend this novel and will be telling my friends to purchase a copy.
Karen Bryant Doering
Parents' Little Black Book
MistBlueEeyore@gmail.com
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The Eagle of Spinalonga eBook Nike Azoros Reviews
A very engaging, heart touching ensemble of tales woven around the central character, Nikos. A young Greek man who has become afflicted with leprosy. Its in the early 1900s, and lepers were exiled to an island much like the Hawaiian lepers to Moloka'i and elsewhere in the world. <br/><br/>My interest was caught by this free kindle offering because one of my favorite books is about the Hawaiian leper colony by Alan Brennert, titled after the island. <br/><br/>This book is written very well and I was thoroughly entranced. The "accidental" forums that Nikos held on the island when others gathered to hear him reading his philosophy books to himself were a nice dip in the waters of Plato. I found the discussions heartening and motivating as well. <br/><br/>BUT. And its a big one.<br/><br/>I'm astounded at the incredible hatred the author possesses for the world's oldest profession. The way they are referred to on occasion is very jarring. There's a scene where two of the women discuss taking up their work again. Very fitting and appropriate to the story but then as the scene wraps up there is a derisive reference to them as "sluts". Not by another character but in the basic narration of the story! I had to re-read it several times to see if perhaps I missed the basis for it. Did not find one. <br/><br/>Future references of the characters always went hand in hand with describing them as fat and ugly with clear import that there was no redeeming value to them. Pavlos was treated better yet the author even acknowledges through Nikos' ruminations, that fewer of the women might have been raped by Pavlos had the services of prostitutes been a available.<br/><br/>If I had any doubt, the author erased them by taking the time in the final pages to have two characters stop and discuss them in a manner that was the eulogical equivalent of spitting in the coffin at a funeral. A scene that was completely unnecessary as any other minor characters would have served not to mention that the dialogue was very out of character & tone for the people speaking and for the community spirit they had worked for. <br/><br/>Again, the deplorable Pavlos.... he was a creature of evil. Why did the two women who enjoyed their work as prostitutes, giving pleasure to others deserve that kind of scathing treatment by even the narrative? <br/><br/>I reflected for a moment on all the women in the story and realized the author may have a Madonna/whore complex severe enough to bleed into his writing. <br/><br/>Should have been a five star book for the enjoying of a well crafted story factor only it was marred seriously by the incongruous slaps at prostitution.
From the very first word to the very last, this book had me enthralled with the way the author, Nike Azoros, can tell a story. It doesn't start out like most historical fictions do, and by that, I mean choppy or fragmented, always trying to tell the back story so we can understand what is going on. The author doesn't do that to us, she makes the assumption that we are all intelligent individuals and gives us a story to match our intellect. I feel that by doing that, she is more in control of taking us to a far away place and setting us right down in the middle of her story rather than trying to teach us something.
The story itself is strong and full of emotions. The main character, Nikos,is the master of making the best of a bad situation, no matter what is presented to him. He struggles with a horrible disease and the fact that he has been abandoned because of it. He not only tries to make his own life better, but also the lives of others who are in the same situation as his own. He goes on to try and bring a resemblance of order to a chaotic place. It almost seems that even though the world is out to get him, he carries on and prevails. As if leprosy wasn't enough, the time in history in which was the story was set, World War II, wasn't going to help matters. But that too, became just another obstacle for Nikos to make the best of and do what he could for not only himself, but others too.
A very good story written by a very good author. What's not to like?
Nikos stands in the church attending his own funeral. The priest instructs him on the manner of the service and tells him when he is dead. Alive in body, dead to the church, his townspeople, his family and the government, Nikos must leave his home never to return. His story is one that will wrench the heart while it details the human spirit that overcomes even the worst of disease and destruction.
There was a time when leprosy was a disease thought to be easily transmitted. A time when there was no cure, no treatment and no hope. At this time Nikos is banished forever to the tiny island of Spinalonga off the Greek coast. With only each other the residents have to try to find a way to survive. But Nikos, unlike many others, decides he will find a way to overcome the hardship and endure.
This beautifully written, well researched novel brings an era of history to life. Encompassing several decades, including WWII, the story of the exiled is one which wrench the heart digging deep into human emotion and behavior.
Usually after I read and review a book I delete it from my or pass along the hard copy to a friend. In this case I will be keeping the novel to read again. I highly recommend this novel and will be telling my friends to purchase a copy.
Karen Bryant Doering
Parents' Little Black Book
MistBlueEeyore@gmail.com
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