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In November the Hiawassee Book Club will discuss The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. 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 fig tree 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.
Print: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2361312~S1
Large Print: https://iii.ocls.info/record=b2393126~S1
Overdrive E-book: https://ocls.overdrive.com/media/6321662
Overdrive Audio: https://ocls.overdrive.com/media/6312325
Mon, Apr 15 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
Tue, Apr 16 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
Wed, Apr 17 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
Thu, Apr 18 | 9:00AM to 8:00PM |
Fri, Apr 19 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sat, Apr 20 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sun, Apr 21 | 1:00PM to 6:00PM |
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