Name: The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
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The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak

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The Island of Missing Trees - Elif ShafakYou don't fall in love in Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Not here, not now. In 1974, two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek, and Defne who is Turkish, can meet in secret, hidden beneath the leaves of a fig tree growing through the roof of the tavern. This tree will witness their hushed happy meetings, and will be there when the war

όπως είναι επόμενο

For scholars who already know these poems well

Arguably his most famous book

Greek text with facing-page English translation

When it comes to innovation and creative thinking

the difference between just and unjust battle is explored

Amara and her fellow she-wolves are vividly drawn in a fascinating depiction of women at the time

Besides an introduction and bibliography it includes a newly constituted Greek text (with critical apparatus)

The major themes of the work are all here echoed

became an example of the ideal community for later Greeks

with an extensive introduction explaining the history of the Greek language

It explores a representative sample of each poet's surviving work