The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

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It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite side o a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The base. is the only place that Kostas, who is Greck and Christian, and Deine, dis is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackend beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chili pepper and wild hath This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the bes wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, eren 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 Kaantalis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separtionand silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus carica growing in the back garden of their home.

In The island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Hir Shalt brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identin lone and trauma, memory and amnesia, nature, and, finall, renesal.