Full name: The Sunrise: A Novel

Author: Victoria Hislop Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780062396099 9780755377787 0062396099 0755377788

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. 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. Similar books: Small Wars by Sadie Jones The Return by Victoria Hislop Gate to the Sea by Bryher The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni The Rent Collector by Camron Wright The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak