Elif Shafak 2 Books Set: Island of Missing Trees and There are Rivers in the Sky

Name : Elif Shafak 2 Books Set: Island of Missing Trees and There are Rivers in the Sky

Author : Elif Shafak

Book Format : Paperback

Genre : Literature & Fiction

Language : English

Pages : 501-600 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Penguin

Sub Genre : Contemporary Fiction Novels Books

THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES :  

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna 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 v anish and break apart.

Decades later in nor th 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 Mis

Country of Origin : India