When Smaragda, at the end of 1874, arrives from Constantinople to Symi by the boat of the old Moscow, he does not expect that on the island with the many privileges and the skilled spongers he will find happiness. This happiness, however, will be marked by many years of inertia, until the day when she will embrace the five-year-old orphan Yosif, whom her compatriots will call "the Arab", making it difficult for her to integrate into their society, which is advanced for the time. .
As the years go by, Smaragda will experience painful losses and a heavy betrayal, which will force her to leave Symi for Rhodes shortly before the dawn of the new century. In Rhodes, where the ottoman's rye is more suffocating, it will infiltrate the male-dominated business community of the island with its perfume, Rodanthos. And while the Turkish occupation gives way to the Italian occupation and the Greeks are struggling to maintain their national status, her family will try to survive in the extremely adverse conditions imposed by the Great War, the Asia Minor Catastrophe, Italian fascism and B World War I, the German occupation and the great famine that plagues the Dodecanese in the heat of the war.
The story of a family in Symi and Rhodes, chequered and tumultuous as the sea surrounding the two islands, from the late 19th century and until the mid-20th century, with the connective tissue of the female form.
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When Smaragda, at the end of 1874, arrives from Constantinople to Symi by the boat of the old Moscow, he does not expect that on the island with the many privileges and the skilled spongers he will find happiness. This happiness, however, will be marked by many years of inertia, until the day when she will embrace the five-year-old orphan Yosif, whom her compatriots will call "the Arab", making it difficult for her to integrate into their society, which is advanced for the time. .
As the years go by, Smaragda will experience painful losses and a heavy betrayal, which will force her to leave Symi for Rhodes shortly before the dawn of the new century. In Rhodes, where the ottoman's rye is more suffocating, it will infiltrate the male-dominated business community of the island with its perfume, Rodanthos. And while the Turkish occupation gives way to the Italian occupation and the Greeks are struggling to maintain their national status, her family will try to survive in the extremely adverse conditions imposed by the Great War, the Asia Minor Catastrophe, Italian fascism and B World War I, the German occupation and the great famine that plagues the Dodecanese in the heat of the war.
The story of a family in Symi and Rhodes, chequered and tumultuous as the sea surrounding the two islands, from the late 19th century and until the mid-20th century, with the connective tissue of the female form.
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