The Island of Missing Trees
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780241988725
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Elif Shafak
SHORTLISTED
FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022
A REESE
WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
SHORTLISTED
FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021
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.
The Island of Missing Trees is a rich,
magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal.
'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
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