Beschreibung
Kostas and Defne meet secretely at a Cypriot taverna where a fig tree is growing through the roof. Decades later, the two lovers take a clipping from the tree and smuggle it into their suitcase, bound for London. The fig tree in the garden is now their daughter Ada's only knowledge of a home she has never visited. She seeks to untangle years of secrets and silence and find her place in the world. From the Booker-shortlisted author of '10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World'.
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Autorenportrait
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-six languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's last novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
