01785nam a22002177a 4500 20211029093917.0 211029b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780241435007 AL eng 23 813.6 SHAI Elif Shafak 9255 Island of Missing Trees UK Viking 2021 353 p. PB 23x15 cm. BLCR-000062 ₹559.20 ₹ ₹699.00 20% 04-10-2021 Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witnesses their hushed, happy meetings; their silent, surreptitious departures. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns - a botanist, looking for native species - looking, really, for Defne. The two lovers return to the taverna to take a clipping from the fig tree and smuggle it into their suitcase, bound for London. Years later, the fig tree in the garden is their daughter Ada's only knowledge of a home she has never visited, as she seeks to untangle years of secrets and silence, and find her place in the world. The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, memory and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. Contemporary fiction 9256 Shafak (Elif) 9257 ddc BK 220274 220274 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2021-10-12 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt Ltd. 559.20 3 1 813.6 SHAI 075025 2025-01-10 00:00:00 2024-11-26 699.00 2021-10-29 BK