Shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022, the Turkish-British author Elif Shafak’s critically acclaimed twelfth novel in English,

(2021), strengthens Shafak’s continuing interest in history through an engagement with the issues of identity, culture, society, and the clashes within these structures. Bearing a stylistic resemblance to Shafak’s previous works of fiction where the reader is also introduced to numerous different converging and diverging lives,

portrays different characters, but this time with the inclusion of a female fig tree alongside the human characters.

Set against the backdrop of 1970s Cyprus and contemporary London, The Island of Missing Trees delves into the impact of war on the lives of ordinary

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Citation: Atayurt Fenge, Zeynep. "The Island of Missing Trees". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 October 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41200, accessed 22 November 2024.]