The Island of Missing Trees is a lyrical and emotionally rich novel that weaves together love, history, and memory across generations, set between Cyprus and London.
The Island of Missing Trees is a lyrical and emotionally rich novel that weaves together love, history, and memory across generations, set between Cyprus and London.
The story follows Kostas and Defne, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot who fall in love during a time of conflict in Cyprus. Their secret meetings take place in a tavern where a fig tree quietly witnesses their love.
Years later, their daughter Ada grows up in London, struggling to understand her family’s past and the silence surrounding it. Through shifting timelines—and even the perspective of the fig tree—the novel explores how trauma, exile, and history shape identity.
