La nueva novela de la finalista del Premio Booker, con mas de 300.000 lectores: Preciosa y desgarradora. -Margaret Atwood
Maravillosa . -Mary Beard

Una voz unica en la literatura mundial . -Ian McEwan

Un libro que te transforma . -Naomi Klein

Shafak crea con sus palabras un nuevo hogar para los lectores . -Colum McCann

NOMINADA AL WOMEN’S PRIZE FINALISTA DE LOS PREMIOS COSTA BOOK FINALISTA DEL WOMEN’s PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 SELECCION DEL CLUB DE LECTURA DE REESE

En un convulso 1974, mientras el ejercito turco ocupa el norte de Chipre, Kostas, un griego cristiano, y Defne, una turca musulmana, se reunen en secreto bajo las vigas ennegrecidas de la taberna La Higuera Feliz, donde cuelgan ristras de ajos, cebollas y pimientos. Alli, lejos del fragor de la guerra, crece a traves de una cavidad en el techo una higuera, testigo del amor de los dos jovenes, pero tambien de sus desencuentros, de la destruccion de Nicosia y de la tragica separacion de los amantes. Decadas mas tarde, en el norte de Londres, Ada Kazantzakis acaba de perder a su madre. A sus dieciseis anos, nunca ha visitado la isla en la que nacieron sus padres y esta desesperada por desenredar anos de secretos, division y silencio. La unica conexion que tiene con la tierra de sus antepasados es un Ficus carica que crece en el jardin de su casa.

La isla del arbol perdido es una historia llena de magia sobre la pertenencia y la identidad, el amor y el dolor, y la asombrosa capacidad de regeneracion a traves de la memoria.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022

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.