SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022 A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK
CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 A rich,
magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38
Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times
bestseller 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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