02853cam a2200301 4500 566625006 TxAuBib 20220629120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635578614 1635578612 7dcb0184-6888-4ee9-8a8f-534bbe1f8107 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6312325 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shafak, Elif. The Island of Missing Trees [Libby] : A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2021. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 322MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 322MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK</b> <b>Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction</b> <b>"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." —David Mitchell, author of <i>Utopia Avenue</i></b> <b>A rich, magical new novel</b> <b>on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of <i>10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World</i>.</b> Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited—- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, <i>The Island of Missing Trees</i> is Elif Shafak's best work yet. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-29 20:00:03. Ghazalla, Amira. Kouma, Daphne. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7dcb0184-6888-4ee9-8a8f-534bbe1f8107&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7dcb0184-6888-4ee9-8a8f-534bbe1f8107&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)