The Poetry of an Isolated Island
About This Novel
Even if you are in darkness and death follows you like a shadow, fearlessness, beauty and kindness will bring hope, like flowers on the cliff, like poetry on an isolated island, using faint light to dispel the boundless chill. In 1954, 13-year-old Frank Gold came to Australia with his parents, away from war-torn Hungary. However, when a new life was about to come, Frank contracted polio, and even walking became a luxury. He was sent to a children's polio sanatorium called the Golden Age for treatment. It was an isolated island that seemed to be separated from the real world. Children were thrown here like injured animals, each licking their wounds, anxiously and eagerly looking forward to returning to their old life. The same is true for Frank. He is sharp and lonely, likes to think and hates rules. The golden age traps his body and his heart like a cage. Until one day, he met Elsa, and everything changed, love, desire...
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