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The-Island-of-Missing-Trees-is-a-rich,-magical-tale-of-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.-The-taverna-is-the-only-place-that-Kostas-and-Defne-can-meet-in-secret,-hidden-beneath-the-blackened-beams-from-which-hang-garlands-of-garlic-and-chilli-peppers,-creeping-honeysuckle,-and-in-the-centre,-growing-through-a-cavity-in-the-roof,-a-fig-tree.-The-fig-tree-witnesses-their-hushed,-happy-meetings;-their-silent,-surreptitious-departures.The-fig-tree-is-there,-too,-when-war-breaks-out,-when-the-capital-is-reduced-to-ashes-and-rubble,-when-the-teenagers-vanish.-Decades-later,-Kostas-returns—a-botanist,-looking-for-native-species—looking,-really,-for-Defne.-The-two-lovers-return-to-the-taverna-to-take-a-clipping-from-the-fig-tree-and-smuggle-it-into-their-suitcase,-bound-for-London.-Years-later,-the-fig-tree-in-the-garden-is-their-daughter-Ada’s-only-knowledge-of-a-home-she-has-never-visited,-as-she-seeks-to-untangle-years-of-secrets-and-silence,-and-find-her-place-in-the-world.
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