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The Island of Missing Trees: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller by Elif Shafak (Hardcover, 2021)
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An unforgettable new novel about two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus, from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place- it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows. In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home. In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, memory and amnesia, human-induced destruction of nature, and, finally, renewal.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780241434994
eBay Product ID (ePID)10049034890
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Island of Missing Trees: the Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller
AuthorElif Shafak
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicTrue Stories, Geology, Books
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height204mm
Item Width138mm
Item Weight400 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorElif Shafak
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 11 Nov, 2022
Beautiful book for all three lovers
Such a beautiful story of humanity told by a fig tree...so clever...Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Oct, 2021
Can’t put it down!
A MasterpieceVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
