The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak
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“The Island of Missing Trees” by Elif Shafak is a powerful and moving novel that explores the themes of love, identity, and trauma in a divided land. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, this magical novel is set in 1974 on the island of Cyprus and follows the story of two teenagers, Kostas and Defne, who meet at a tavern where they can escape the sorrows of the world outside. Years later, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis seeks to uncover the secrets of her ancestry in North London, where she is connected to the land of her ancestors only through a fig tree growing in her back garden. With characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, Elif Shafak brings us a wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, and faith and belief. This book has received rave reviews, with Reese Witherspoon calling it “powerful and poignant,” and Margaret Atwood praising it as a “lovely heartbreaker of a novel.”
- Paperback / Softback
- 368 Pages / Published 7 Apr 2022
- In stock
£9.99
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK*****You don’t fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Not here, not now. In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home.
The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek, and Defne who is Turkish, can meet in secret, hidden beneath the leaves of a fig tree growing through the roof of the tavern. This tree will witness their hushed happy meetings, and will be there when the war breaks out and the teenagers vanish. Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada has never visited the island where her parents were born.
She seeks to untangle years of her family’s silence, but the only connection she has to the land of her ancestors Is a fig tree growing tin the garden of their home . . .
*****’This book moved me to tears . . .
in the best way. Powerful and poignant’ Reese Witherspoon’A brilliant novel — one that rings with Shafak’s characteristic compassion’ Robert Macfarlane’This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime’ Polly Samson*** ELIF SHAFAK’S NEW NOVEL, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ***
Additional information
| Weight | 264 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 197 × 27 mm |
| ISBN-13 | 9780241988725 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Date of Publication | 7 Apr 2022 |
| By (author) | Elif Shafak |
| Pages | 368 |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
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