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La Isla del rbol Perdido / The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak
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«Maravillosa . --Mary Beard
«Una voz nica en la literatura mundial . --Ian McEwan
«Un libro que te transforma . --Naomi Klein
«Shafak crea con sus palabras un nuevo hogar para los lectores . --Colum McCann NOMINADA AL WOMEN'S PRIZE
FINALISTA DE LOS PREMIOS COSTA BOOK
FINALISTA DEL WOMEN's PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
SELECCION DEL CLUB DE LECTURA DE REESE En un convulso 1974, mientras el ejrcito turco ocupa el norte de Chipre, Kostas, un griego cristiano, y Defne, una turca musulmana, se renen en secreto bajo las vigas ennegrecidas de la taberna La Higuera Feliz, donde cuelgan ristras de ajos, cebollas y pimientos. All, lejos del fragor de la guerra, crece a travs de una cavidad en el techo una higuera, testigo del amor de los dos jvenes, pero tambin de sus desencuentros, de la destruccin de Nicosia y de la trgica separacin de los amantes. Dcadas ms tarde, en el norte de Londres, Ada Kazantzakis acaba de perder a su madre. A sus diecisis aos, nunca ha visitado la isla en la que nacieron sus padres y est desesperada por desenredar aos de secretos, divisin y silencio. La nica conexin que tiene con la tierra de sus antepasados es un Ficus carica que crece en el jardn de su casa. La isla del rbol perdido es una historia llena de magia sobre la pertenencia y la identidad, el amor y el dolor, y la asombrosa capacidad de regeneracin a travs de la memoria. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 "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 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.
«Maravillosa . --Mary Beard
«Una voz nica en la literatura mundial . --Ian McEwan
«Un libro que te transforma . --Naomi Klein
«Shafak crea con sus palabras un nuevo hogar para los lectores . --Colum McCann NOMINADA AL WOMEN'S PRIZE
FINALISTA DE LOS PREMIOS COSTA BOOK
FINALISTA DEL WOMEN's PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
SELECCION DEL CLUB DE LECTURA DE REESE En un convulso 1974, mientras el ejrcito turco ocupa el norte de Chipre, Kostas, un griego cristiano, y Defne, una turca musulmana, se renen en secreto bajo las vigas ennegrecidas de la taberna La Higuera Feliz, donde cuelgan ristras de ajos, cebollas y pimientos. All, lejos del fragor de la guerra, crece a travs de una cavidad en el techo una higuera, testigo del amor de los dos jvenes, pero tambin de sus desencuentros, de la destruccin de Nicosia y de la trgica separacin de los amantes. Dcadas ms tarde, en el norte de Londres, Ada Kazantzakis acaba de perder a su madre. A sus diecisis aos, nunca ha visitado la isla en la que nacieron sus padres y est desesperada por desenredar aos de secretos, divisin y silencio. La nica conexin que tiene con la tierra de sus antepasados es un Ficus carica que crece en el jardn de su casa. La isla del rbol perdido es una historia llena de magia sobre la pertenencia y la identidad, el amor y el dolor, y la asombrosa capacidad de regeneracin a travs de la memoria. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 "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 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.
Paperback
$21.95