The Island of Missing Trees
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The Island of Missing Trees
- Writer: Elif ShafakViews: 3024
- Category: English
- Pages: 354
- Availability: In Stock
- Product Code: STP-2708
- ISBN: 978-0-241-43499-4
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Two teenagers, a Greek
Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both
call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet
in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands
of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre,
growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witnesses
their hushed, happy meetings; their silent, surreptitious departures.
The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is
reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. Decades later,
Kostas returns - a botanist, looking for native species - looking,
really, for Defne. The two lovers return to the taverna to take a
clipping from the fig tree and smuggle it into their suitcase, bound for
London. Years later, the fig tree in the garden is their daughter Ada's
only knowledge of a home she has never visited, as she seeks to
untangle years of secrets and silence, and find her place in the world.
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
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| Pages | 354 |
