The Island of Missing Trees
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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
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An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty -- Lemn Sissay
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels -- Marian Keyes
Lovely heartbreaker of a novel centered on dark secrets of civil wars & evils of extremism: Cyprus, star-crossed lovers, killed beloveds, damaged kids -- Margaret Atwood on Twitter
Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature -- Ian McEwan
A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and beliefThe Island of Missing Trees is balm for our bruised times -- David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
A wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound -- William Boyd
A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, for those whom history has exiled, excluded or separated. I know it will move many readers around the world, as it moved me -- Robert Macfarlane
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels. I LOVED The Island of Missing Trees, about the singular agony of civil war, about displaced people & unexpectedly the hope that can survive -- Marian Keyes
At once intimate in tone and ambitious in its reach, The Island of Missing Trees is a novel that moves with the urgency of a mystery as it uncovers the story of lovers divided first by war and then, after they are reunited and have a child, by that same war's enduring psychic wounds. But there is tenderness and humor in this tale, too, and the intense readerly pleasures of a narrative that dances from the insights of ecological science to Greek myth and finally to their surprising merger in what might be called-natural magic -- Siri Hustvedt
This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime. Though rooted in bloody atrocity it sings to all the senses -- Polly Samson
A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES is balm for our bruised times -- David Mitchell
Lovely heartbreaker of a novel centered on dark secrets of civil wars & evils of extremism: Cyprus, star-crossed lovers, killed beloveds, damaged kids. Uprootings. (One narrator is a fig tree!) -- Margaret Atwood on Twitter
One of the best writers in the world today * Hanif Kureishi *
A beautiful novel about the broken island of Cyprus and its wounded and scarred inhabitants, The Island of Missing Trees teaches us that brokenness can only be healed by love. -- Bernhard Schlink
This is a beautiful book that will entrance your imagination and capture your soul -- Kate Williams
An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty. I have been transfixed & transformed by a transcendent storyteller. -- Lemn Sissay
A book to be cherished and savoured -- Naomi Klein
Shafak evocatively tells the couple's 40-year love story through a fast-paced narrative that moves between the past and present...the book explores the lasting impact the war had on Cyprus and the natural world - the displacement, the disappearances and destruction - while also revealing the tender efforts of the island to heal and regrow * New Statesman *
A kind of paean to the beauty and diversity of Cyprus...this is a colourful and impassioned work, original in the ways it retells and reconstructs painful pasts * The i *
Narrated in part by a wise fig tree, Shafak explores love, grief, war and transgenerational trauma in an elegiac and powerfully rendered novel * Observer *
An epic tale about love, grief and memory set in Cyprus and London between 1974 and the late 2010s * Spectator *
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels -- Marian Keyes
Lovely heartbreaker of a novel centered on dark secrets of civil wars & evils of extremism: Cyprus, star-crossed lovers, killed beloveds, damaged kids -- Margaret Atwood on Twitter
Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature -- Ian McEwan
A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and beliefThe Island of Missing Trees is balm for our bruised times -- David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue
A wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound -- William Boyd
A brilliant novel -- one that rings with Shafak's characteristic compassion for the overlooked and the under-loved, for those whom history has exiled, excluded or separated. I know it will move many readers around the world, as it moved me -- Robert Macfarlane
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels. I LOVED The Island of Missing Trees, about the singular agony of civil war, about displaced people & unexpectedly the hope that can survive -- Marian Keyes
At once intimate in tone and ambitious in its reach, The Island of Missing Trees is a novel that moves with the urgency of a mystery as it uncovers the story of lovers divided first by war and then, after they are reunited and have a child, by that same war's enduring psychic wounds. But there is tenderness and humor in this tale, too, and the intense readerly pleasures of a narrative that dances from the insights of ecological science to Greek myth and finally to their surprising merger in what might be called-natural magic -- Siri Hustvedt
This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime. Though rooted in bloody atrocity it sings to all the senses -- Polly Samson
A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES is balm for our bruised times -- David Mitchell
Lovely heartbreaker of a novel centered on dark secrets of civil wars & evils of extremism: Cyprus, star-crossed lovers, killed beloveds, damaged kids. Uprootings. (One narrator is a fig tree!) -- Margaret Atwood on Twitter
One of the best writers in the world today * Hanif Kureishi *
A beautiful novel about the broken island of Cyprus and its wounded and scarred inhabitants, The Island of Missing Trees teaches us that brokenness can only be healed by love. -- Bernhard Schlink
This is a beautiful book that will entrance your imagination and capture your soul -- Kate Williams
An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty. I have been transfixed & transformed by a transcendent storyteller. -- Lemn Sissay
A book to be cherished and savoured -- Naomi Klein
Shafak evocatively tells the couple's 40-year love story through a fast-paced narrative that moves between the past and present...the book explores the lasting impact the war had on Cyprus and the natural world - the displacement, the disappearances and destruction - while also revealing the tender efforts of the island to heal and regrow * New Statesman *
A kind of paean to the beauty and diversity of Cyprus...this is a colourful and impassioned work, original in the ways it retells and reconstructs painful pasts * The i *
Narrated in part by a wise fig tree, Shafak explores love, grief, war and transgenerational trauma in an elegiac and powerfully rendered novel * Observer *
An epic tale about love, grief and memory set in Cyprus and London between 1974 and the late 2010s * Spectator *
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 55 languages. The author of 19 books, 12 of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. Her previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love was chosen by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. In 2021, Shafak's The Architect's Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's inaugural book club, The Reading Room. Find out more about Elif Shafak on her website: www.elifshafak.com.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241434994 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241434998 |
| Titel | The Island of Missing Trees |
| Autor | Elif Shafak |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-08-05 |
| Seitenanzahl | 368 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
| Hinweis | Nicht verfügbar |