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The narrative is split into three different parts. Geographically it is set on two Islands, Cyprus and England.The novel opens in England, 2010. Ada is sixteen years-old and has just lost her mother. A quiet girl, her mother’s passing only adding to her withdrawal. One day in school she stands and screams primordially. The scream is recorded on somebody’s phone and goes viral. She is immediately ostracized, ridiculed, and teased by her classmates and complete strangers, but then positive posts s...
There were parts of the book I found deeply satisfying and moving and other parts that frustrated me or that I rushed over, and my rating reflects this.In 2010s London a 16-year old girl, Ada Kazantzakis, who recently lost her mother, is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Her father is having a hard time too. An ecologist and botanist, Kostas Kazantzakis is more at ease among his plants than with other people or his daughter. And what about the dead mother? We are told small bits here...
Elif Shafak is a wondrous author, here she writes with imagination, originality, and lyricism, not to mention magical realism, of the people and natural environment of Cyprus. Set in different time periods, from the 1970s and up to more recent times, it is set in Cyprus and London. If you are unaware of the turbulent history of the island, then this novel provides a informative, human and compassionate account of its tragic, traumatising, troubling and turbulent past, of fractured communities to...
The Island of Missing Trees is a magnificent love story of life, loss, love, pain, acceptance, defiance, and resilience. I have read several of Elif Shafak's books and this one may be one of my favorites. Shafak tells a tale of the war-torn island of Cyprus and the conflicts between Turks and Greek, Christians and Muslims. Shafak writes with a wondrous imagination of a Fig Tree that breathes an uncanny life into the backdrop of the novel. Initially, I felt a bit jaded about a Fig Tree transformi...
