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008			2309192021 nyu 000 0 eng
020			_a9781635579796
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100	1		_aShafak, Elif, _d1971- _eauthor _915978
245	1	4	_aThe island of missing trees : _ba novel / _cElif Shafak.
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2021.
300			_a353 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. 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."-- Back cover.
650			_2Belonging (Social psychology) _vFiction _915979
651		4	_aCyprus _xHistory _yCyprus Crisis, 1974- _xFiction _915980
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