THE ISLAND OF THE MISSING TREES BY ELIF SHAFAK (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)
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 two main timelines, one set in moder
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Another one of your beautiful illustration, Ivana. Thx for sharing with us. Thx for your sweet comment, girl, that sounds so exciting about your moving houses next year. I feel you there, Ivana, it's so much fun but gosh it is exhausting all these furniture and wallpapers and rugs and carpets and tiles and what not, lol. It's so hard to make up your mind, isn't it? And it's damn hard to tie it all together, that's why I am now studying interior design, I don't want it get out of hand (again) you know buying everything I like and not knowing how to tie it all together so that it might work in the end. Gosh, sorry Ivana I got carried away, lol. Hope you don't mind, what I really want to say was, it might help if you make a mood-board, that's what I do now and it already helps a lot. Happy Friday, Ivana.
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it is very exciting but also very frightening and overwhelming....at least I know my life won't be boring any time soon.
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