The Island of Missing Trees

Resumen del libro

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt 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. In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal. 'What a wonderful read! This book moved me to tears...

in the best way. Powerful and poignant' Reese Witherspoon'A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, for those whom history has exiled, excluded or separated. I know it will move many readers around the world, as it moved me' Robert Macfarlane'A wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound' William Boyd'This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime' Polly Samson'A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Elif Shafakx{0026}lt;/B es una escritora británico-turca con veinte libros publicados, trece de los cuales son novelas. Doctorada en Ciencias Políticas y en Humanidades, ha sido profesora en varias universidades, entre ellas la de Oxford. Gran defensora de los derechos de la mujer y LGBTQ+ y la libertad de expresión, fue cofundadora del Consejo Europeo de Relaciones Exteriores y colabora con publicaciones de toda Europa. Ha recibido la medalla Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, y en 2017 Politico la eligió como una de las doce personas que os llenarán el corazón de una muy necesitada alegría . En 2021 fue una las cien mujeres más inspiradoras e influyentes según la BBC, es vicepresidenta de la Real Sociedad de Literatura del Reino Unido y ha sido jurado de premios literarios, incluido el PEN/Nabokov. Ganadora del Premio Internacional de Literatura Halldór Laxness por su contribución a la renovación del arte de contar historias , su obra ha sido traducida a cincuenta y siete lenguas. Lumen ha publicado su exitosa novela x{0026}lt;I La bastarda de Estambulx{0026}lt;/I (2009), x{0026}lt;I El fruto del honorx{0026}lt;/I (2012), x{0026}lt;I El arquitecto del universo x{0026}lt;/I (2015), elegida para The Queen's Reading Room, x{0026}lt;I Las tres pasionesx{0026}lt;/I (2016), x{0026}lt;I Mis últimos 10 minutos y 38 segundos en este extraño mundox{0026}lt;/I (2020), finalista del Premio Booker y del Premio Ondaatje y libro del año de Blackwell, x{0026}lt;I La isla del árbol perdidox{0026}lt;/I (2022), finalista del Premio Costa Book, el British Book Award, el RSL Ondaatje Prize y el Women's Prize for Fiction, y elegida por el Reese Witherspoon Book Club, y x{0026}lt;I Hay ríos en el cielox{0026}lt;/I (2024). Su página web es www.elifshafak.com y su Substack se titula Unmapped Storylands .x{0026}lt;/P