The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak, Elif

The Island of Missing Trees (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781635578591)

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The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak, Elif

The Island of Missing Trees

$27.00
The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak, Elif

The Island of Missing Trees

$27.00
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." --David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue

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 lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.

A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.

Author: Elif Shafak
ISBN-10: 1635578590
ISBN-13: 9781635578591
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.52w x 1.25d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2021 pg. 7
Publishers Weekly 09/13/2021
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
Booklist 10/01/2021 pg. 24
Foreword 10/26/2021
Shelf Awareness 11/12/2021
By Elif Shafak
By Elif Shafak
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Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels, including her latest The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Award, RSL Ondaatje Prize and Women's Prize for Fiction. She is a bestselling author in many countries around the world and her work has been translated into 55 languages. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize and was Blackwell's Book of the Year. The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK. She also holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Recently, Shafak was awarded the Halld Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling'. www.elifshafak.com

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