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Dec 2, 2021 · The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. reviewed by Sezen Ünlüönen. Turkish-British author Elif Shafak’s new novel, The Island of Missing Trees, revisits some of her favorite themes: nonlinear history, the redemptive power of stories, and immigrants and outsiders. The titular island of the novel is Cyprus, and the story mostly moves ...
The Island of Missing Trees was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2022. Through Kostas and Defne’s story, Shafak explores themes of cultural and communal conflict, forbidden love, and the interconnectedness of nature. This guide is based on the Penguin Books Kindle Edition.
The idea of forbidden love is one of the major themes explored in the book and is embodied by two couples: Kostas and Defne, and Yiorgos and Yusuf. From the very outset, the reader is made privy to the eventual fate of both these couples. The prologue describes the corpses of two men lying at the bottom of a well in Cyprus, and it is fairly ...
Feb 6, 2024 · The Island of Missing Trees. Book: The Island of Missing Trees. Author: Elif Shafak. Edition: Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing. In the weeks after finishing this novel, I found myself referring to the tree narrator in the book on multiple occasions. How she spoke such truth!
Nov 2, 2021 · The Island of Missing Trees. by Elif Shafak. 1. When Ada says she felt possessed during her outburst in school, Meryem jumps at the chance to dispel whatever djinn could have invaded Ada’s spirit. But Ada, like her mother, is unconvinced by traditional methods. Meryem, defeated, suggests, “Maybe we give other names to grief because we are ...
Aug 5, 2021 · A rich, magical new book 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 ...
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Mar 12, 2022 · The Island of the Missing Trees is a compelling argument for sentience beyond the human brain, challenging its reader to rethink long-established sapiens-centric ways of perceiving knowledge, suffering, communication, and more. I found the passages in the fig’s first-person point of view particularly potent and notable (as a perusal of the few great passages I highlight below makes evident).
