Two teenagers, a Christian boy, and a Muslim girl, meet in a pub on the island they call Vatan, Kostas and Dafne grow and grow up in the shadow of their love. He witnesses their secret and joyful meetings. When the war starts and the capital turns in ...
Two teenagers, a Christian boy, and a Muslim girl, meet in a pub on the island they call Vatan, Kostas and Dafne grow and grow up in the shadow of their love. He witnesses their secret and joyful meetings. When the war starts and the capital turns into ashes and rubble, these two hearts disappear and the tree remains there. Years later, Kostas returns to the island in search of his lost love...
"Island of Lost Trees" is a moving and poetic story about love, separation, transcendence, history, and nature, some believe it is the best work that Elif Shafak has written so far.
The narratives of the story can be divided into three parts; What is defined by the language of the fig tree, who has witnessed all the events in all those years and narrates the events to us as an impartial narrator, a third-person narrator who narrates the narratives related to the present, i.e. the late 2010s, from London, and a third-person narrator who It describes the events of 1974 from Cyprus. While the narratives have a time shift; they are so intertwined that they take the reader on a boat in a calm sea. There are not many characters in this book; But in the course of the story, we travel to the past of these people. In what environment, in what family and atmosphere they lived and grew up, it becomes clear to the reader little by little throughout the book and we get to know these people gradually. While the atmosphere of the book deals with the unrest and historical political issues of Cyprus and depicts the worries and darkness of those years well, it also includes a romantic narrative that has its own sweetness.
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