The Island of Missing Trees A Novel
eAudio - 2021
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "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 Utopia Avenue 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 f...ig 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...
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Bloomsbury Publishing (US)
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- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 338 GB |
Parts | 10 |
ISBN | 9781635578614 |
Release Date | 11/2/2021 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 338 GB |
ISBN | 9781635578614 |
Release Date | 11/2/2021 |