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The Island of Missing Trees

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內容簡介 ✰2022女性文學獎決選小說✰繼《倒數10分又38秒》，土耳其女作家艾莉芙夏法克再次帶來動人新作！1974年，分裂之島塞普勒斯。貫穿城區酒館屋頂生長的無花果樹見證小情侶的禁忌之戀：希臘裔基督徒少年柯斯塔斯和土耳其裔穆斯林少女德芙娜在酒館偷偷相會，而貫穿屋內的無花果樹見證他們的戀情。從充滿羞澀與開心的會面、到匆促且沉默的別離，戰爭爆發後他們再也沒有見面，少男少女分手遠去，無花果樹默默佇立原地。卅多年後，十六歲少女艾達從北倫敦返回父母故鄉尋根，想要解開久遠的家族祕密、分離與沈默，無花果樹是她與先人的唯一聯繫。柯斯塔斯以植物學者的身分歸國，研究當地的植物，但其實他要尋找的另有其人，而故事才正要開始。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 fig 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 the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love.Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet."

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各界推薦 '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 wonderfully transporting and magical novel that is, at the same time, revelatory about recent history and the natural world and quietly profound' William Boyd 'This is an enchanting, compassionate and wise novel and storytelling at its most sublime' Polly Samson 'Shafak is passionately interested in dissolving barriers, whether of race, nationality, culture, gender, geography or a more mystical kind' Sunday Times 'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi 'Shafak makes a new home for us in words' Colum McCann '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. Uprootings. (One narrator is a fig tree!)' Margaret Atwood on Twitter

作者介紹

作者介紹 Elif ShafakElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into 54 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. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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