Elif Shafak THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES First Edition Signed
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Elif Shafak THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES First Edition Signed
Exclusive Signed edition first print hardback of THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES by Elif Shafak and published by Viking in 2021. Signed 'with best wishes' by Shafak on a special tipped in page. Numberline is: 001. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover.The book is in as new condition (violet cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a fine unclipped dust jacket which also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
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, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of '10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World'.
353 pages including Notes to the reader, Glossary and Acknowledgements.
ISBN: 9780241434994
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