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    This document provides publishing information for Elif Shafak's novel "The Island of Missing Trees". In 3 sentences: The novel tells the story of two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, who meet secretly on the island they call home, witnessed by a fig tree. When war breaks out they are separated for decades until one returns as a botanist looking for the other. It is a tale that explores themes of belonging, identity, love, trauma, nature and renewal as told through the generations by the fig tree.

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    This document provides publishing information for Elif Shafak's novel "The Island of Missing Trees". In 3 sentences: The novel tells the story of two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, who meet secretly on the island they call home, witnessed by a fig tree. When war breaks out they are separated for decades until one returns as a botanist looking for the other. It is a tale that explores themes of belonging, identity, love, trauma, nature and renewal as told through the generations by the fig tree.

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    The Island of Missing Trees

    BOOK
    FICTION
    UK & Comm Viking (Ed. Mary Mount)
    US & Canada Bloomsbury Publishing (Ed. Anton Mueller)
    Jul 2021

    By Elif Shafak Translation Rights Sold


    Books Jonny Geller, +44 (0)20 7393 4357, gelleroffice@curtisbrown.co.uk Arabic Dar al-Adab
    Translation Rights Daisy Meyrick, +44 (0)20 7393 4425, daisy.meyrick@curtisbrown.co.uk Armenian Antares Media
    Translation Rights(Childrens / YA) Roxane Edouard, +44 (0)20 7393 4491,
    roxane.edouard@curtisbrown.co.uk Holding
    Bosnian BuyBook

    A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes Bulgarian Egmont Bulgaria
    Publishing House
    38 Seconds in this Strange World.
    Croatian Hena Com
    Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island Danish Gads Forlag
    they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in Dutch Nieuw Amsterdam
    secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and Finnish Gummerus
    chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the Publishers
    roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witnesses their hushed, happy meetings; their silent, French Flammarion
    surreptitious departures. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the
    Georgian Palitra Publishing
    capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. Decades later,
    German Kein & Aber
    Kostas returns - a botanist, looking for native species - looking, really, for Defne. The
    Hungarian Europa Konyvkiado
    two lovers return to the taverna to take a clipping from the fig tree and smuggle it into
    their suitcase, bound for London. Years later, the fig tree in the garden is their Italian Rizzoli Editore
    daughter Ada's only knowledge of a home she has never visited, as she seeks to Lithuanian Tyto Alba
    untangle years of secrets and silence, and find her place in the world. Macedonian TRI Publishing Centre
    Norwegian Cappelen Damm
    The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and Polish Wydawnictwo
    trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Poznanskie
    Seconds in this Strange World. Portuguese (PT) Editorial Presenca
    Portuguese (BR) HarperCollins Brazil
    Romanian Editura Polirom
    Russian Azbooka-Atticus
    Serbian Laguna
    Slovak Tatran
    Slovenian Sanje Publishers
    Spanish Lumen

    Audio Rights
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    Film Rights
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    Contact Luke Speed for more information

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