Today I shall review The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. I was actually gifted this book. What a wonderful present it proved to be! Published in 2021, this postmodern novel follows two story lines and uses framed narration. The Island of Missing Trees tells the life story of a Greek Turkish couple and their adolescent daughter. This novel examines and explores a number of topics such as identity, migration, immigrant life, war trauma, memory, love and family. It's an ambitious novel that examines serious topics with due respect and sensitivity . I read it months ago, but I remember it vividly. Honestly, I cried a lot while reading this novel. It really moved me greatly. In fact, that is probably why it took me this long to finish this book review. I needed to emotionally process the story. The Island of Missing Trees is set in London and Cyprus. The narration isn't chronological . The story jumps back and forth, following ...
Beautiful illustrations!
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DeleteThese are wonderful, I especially like the 3 fairies (or 3 muses as they look to me also).
ReplyDeleteThe pages of my planning for school work always used to have drawings around the edges that were slightly similar to yours, and I still find myself sketching at the same time as making notes now.
It's a great treat to visit your imagination.
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Bas su lijepe sve ali prva mi je posebna...razradila si je do zadnjeg detalja...divna!
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Love the first one so so much, gorgeous doll xx
ReplyDeleteMeni se čini da si ovaj put prevazišla i samu sebe! ;) Ona kosa sa lišćem je pravo savršenstvo! :)
ReplyDeleteLa prima illustrazione è davvero fantastica Ivana!
ReplyDeleteForest fairy i three fairies su mi odlične, stvarno imaš dara za crtanje :))
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First illustration is magical, a reel fairy :)
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Koliko puno predivnih ilustracija.
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