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Detail The Island of Missing Trees

Author : Elif Shafak

Pages : 368 pages

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1635578590

ISBN-13 : 9781635578591

Synopsis The Island of Missing Trees

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love.Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis