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245		4	_aThe island of missing trees
260			_a _bPenguin, _c2021
300			_a356 pages ; 20cm
520			_aIt 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.
630			_aP-EN _97841
650			_aHistory _91632
650			_aCyprus History _914196
650			_aCyprus Crisis - 1974 _914197
650			_aMagical Realism _912856
650			_aFantasy _914198
650			_aRomance _911141
700			_aShafak, Elif _d1971- _eAutor _914199
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905			_am
912			_a2021-01-01
942			_a1
953			_d2022-11-17 15:58:30
999			_c3298 _d3298
655			_aNovels
653			_aREADING IN ENGLISH