The MisThe Island of Missing Trees By Elif Shafak

A rich, magical novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. In 1974, on the island of Cyprus, two teenagers—one Greek Christian, one Turkish Muslim—meet and fall in love in a taverna secretly owned by their families, its heart a magnificent fig tree.

As the island is torn apart by civil war, their forbidden romance leads to betrayal, heartbreak, and a desperate act of escape. Decades later in London, their daughter, Ada, feels disconnected from her family’s haunted past.

It is only when a devastating storm unearths a long-buried fig tree in her backyard that the fragments of her history begin to knit together, guided by the haunting whispers of the tree itself. A sweeping, lyrical tale that moves between past and present, The Island of Missing Trees is a profoundly moving celebration of ecological endurance and the human spirit's resilience against the forces that seek to bury it.