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<div class="books_detail_description_text_colum" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; width: 883.828px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 207); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="float: left; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; width: 883.828px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(140, 140, 140); text-align: justify;">A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World – available for pre-order now It 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, memory and amnesia, human-induced destruction of nature, and, finally, renewal. 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 Shafak is passionately interested in dissolving barriers, whether of race, nationality, culture, gender, geography or a more mystical kind Sunday Times One of the best writers in the world today Hanif Kureishi Shafak makes a new home for us in words Colum McCann</p><h2 class="biblio-title" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.8rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; padding-bottom: 1rem; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(240, 240, 240); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Product details</h2><ul class="biblio-info" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; columns: auto 2; max-width: 80rem; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Format</label>&nbsp;Hardback |&nbsp;<span itemprop="numberOfPages">368 pages</span></li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions</label>&nbsp;138 x 204 x 30mm | 400g</li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Publication date</label>&nbsp;<span itemprop="datePublished">05 Aug 2021</span></li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Publisher</label>&nbsp;<span itemprop="publisher" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemscope="Penguin Books Ltd"><a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/publishers/Penguin-Books-Ltd" itemprop="url" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration-line: none;"><span itemprop="name">Penguin Books Ltd</span></a></span></li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Imprint</label>&nbsp;Viking</li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Publication City/Country</label>&nbsp;London, United Kingdom</li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">Language</label>&nbsp;English</li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">ISBN10</label>&nbsp;0241434998</li><li style="line-height: 2.8rem;"><label style="font-weight: bold;">ISBN13</label>&nbsp;<span itemprop="isbn">9780241434994</span></li></ul></div><div class="books_detail_description_text_colum" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; width: 883.828px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 207); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><h6 style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; width: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(247, 148, 29);">About the Author</h6><p style="float: left; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; width: 883.828px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(140, 140, 140); text-align: justify;">Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 languages. The author of 19 books, 12 of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak s latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell s Book of the Year. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 vels That Shaped Our World. In 2021, Shafak s The Architect s Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall s inaugural book club, The Reading Room.</p></div>