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An interesting read of short stories giving a taste of Greek life and culture. It was nice to dip in and out as time allowed but I prefer Victoria Hislop's novels where the characters are more fully explored.
Well written stories from Greece, in recognisable Victoria's style, combined myths, legends and true stories that at the same time bring you knowledge of landscape, Greek history, culture, way of living, family relationships, traditions, customs... Pure pleasure!Ne verujem da će biti srpskog prevoda... :(
[March 19, 2018] Almost in the middle of the book and as much as I adored the beginning, I wasn't expecting short stories without the main one. Here's what I want, I want the girl who traveled from England to Greece to vacation and meet a postal sending guy to actually meet him. The stories are not weird, the author says they are but to me they are normal. I felt really sorry for the state of modern Greece and its economic situation. This is a country that depends entirely on tourism, so I expec...
Everyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of Greece. I fell in love with that beautiful country, and its people twenty years ago and have been lucky enough to visit twice a year ever since. I haven't really gone off the beaten track, sticking to the islands such as Corfu, Crete, Zakynthos, Kos, Rhodes, Ithaka, Kefalonia, Lefkada and Kos. We always travel early in the season, and then later on and as it's usually fairly quiet, we get to know the locals. Our friends in Arillas, in north-wes...
I heard Victoria Hislop talking about this book on the radio and it sounded fascinating so I rushed out to buy.What a disappointment (despite loving Greece). It read to me like a succession of poorly written essays on "What I did in the holidays" joined together by the equivalent of the worst sort of radio links.Safe to say that this writer is not for me.
Interesting set of short stories based around a set of postcards and a notebook around Greece and a mixture of novel stories and retelling of the classics as it takes the reader on a trip
This book is perfect! I can not understand so many negative comments, I think this is an ideal combination of a novel and a collection of short stories. Based on a frame story of erotic disappointment and search for comfort through a trip to Greece, the author combines a series of small beautiful stories that each tell something about love or this small country where this search takes place. You might say that these stories do not seem important, that they do not have something very special but
As a Hislop fan I was eager to read this. I liked the synopsis and thought it sounded a different style to her other books which it is!. However the historical detail I have enjoyed before was there and the beautiful descriptive language which allows you to visualise the scene and this was enhanced with the addition of pictures which I enjoyed. The story is full of information and the ending tied it up nicely. I didn't enjoy it as much as her other books but it was a different style for the auth...
In my view this book is another no-no by Victoria Hislop. The last no-no was The Sunrise, a story filled with bland characters. Cartes Postales from Greece is yet again about nobodies, and this time it's about a lot of nothing. The previous book she wrote with short stories, (The Last Dance: And Other Stories, was really good. I liked the stories and I liked her storytelling. This time she tried to make the short stories part of a bigger story, which I don't think worked. Postcards and finally a...
4.25 starsDisclaimer: I loved this book in its entirety. My only complaint is that the stuff that's on the blurb is just a miniscule part of the story. And it's because of that that I felt a bit let down / betrayed. This is why I lopped off 0.75 stars. Okay. Tiny rant over.Cartes Postales from Greece starts off with Ellie Thomas receiving a bunch of postcards addressed to someone else. Curious about the man writing the postcards and the country from which he is sending them, she decides to go on...
3,5*Well.Victoria Hislop is one of my favourite authors ever. For those who don't know, she's an English woman that fell in love with Greece, and has produced several novels set here. This is a story that contains a lot of stories - a young woman living in London, Ellie, receives a bunch of postcards from Greece, and decides to visit the country. Before she leaves she receives a notebook containing a few Greek stories, written by a man who believes he's sending them to the woman that left him. T...
Random, not very interesting stories, in between OK pictures of Greece.
“The gods gave the Greeks this idyll, but look what they have done with it.”Cartes Postales from Greece, by Victoria Hislop, is a series of intriguing vignettes woven into the story of a spurned lover’s odyssey, which is itself wrapped inside a tale of misdirected communications. A journey, both physical and spiritual, is documented in a series of postcards and then a notebook, posted to a woman the sender did not know.The book includes beautiful, colour pictures of each setting in Greece. Set a...
