{"product_id":"the-island-of-missing-trees-paperback","title":"The Island of Missing Trees - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElif Shafak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eUtopia Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, magical new novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003e10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, \u003ci\u003e The Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is Elif Shafak's best work yet.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElif Shafak\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books, 12 of which are novels, including her latest \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Missing Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003e10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize and was Blackwell's Book of the Year. \u003ci\u003eThe Forty Rules of Love \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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 Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling'. www.elifshafak.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47368238727346,"sku":"9781635579796","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/bHlZbXZKNXpSbWgvSTF5ZS9SWVVDQT09.webp?v=1777576361","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-island-of-missing-trees-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}