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The island of missing trees / Elif Shafak.

Author: Shafak, Elif, 1971-

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Classification: Fiction

Publisher: UK : Penguin Books, 2022.

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9780241988725 (pbk.) :

Notes:

Originally published: UK: Viking, 2021.

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 Island of Missing Trees', prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, memory and amnesia, human-induced destruction of nature, and, finally, renewal.