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The Sunrise

The Sunrise

Author(s): Victoria Hislop

Location(s): Famagusta

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1970s

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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 Özkans, 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.

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An interesting exploration of the history of Cyprus in the 1970s. The Sunrise is the hotel central to the storyline, and how it binds the individual stories of lives, both Turkish Cypriot and Greek...

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Disappointing but at least I learnt something!

Author: Eva Glyn

I loved the premise of this book, set in the Cypriot resort of Famagusta, which was abandoned during the troubles in the 1970s which divided the island. However for me it didn’t completely deliver. For some reason I couldn’t...

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Slow start but good

Author: Dpentland

Victoria Hislop has a very particular style of writing which continues with this book. It feels like she is very detached from what is happening to her characters, like she is watching a world in a bubble and commenting...

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Have you ever been to Cyprus? And if so, have you ever given much thought to the cataclysmic events that took place on the island in the Summer of 1974, decimating the glamorous beach...

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