An unforgettable new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation. Shafak contributes to many major publications around the world and she has been awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better. She has judged numerous literary prizes and is chairing the Wellcome Prize 2019. Find out more about Elif Shafak on her website- www.elifshafak.com
An outstanding work of breathtaking beauty
*Lemn Sissay*
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels
*Marian Keyes*
Lovely heartbreaker of a novel centered on dark secrets of civil
wars & evils of extremism: Cyprus, star-crossed lovers, killed
beloveds, damaged kids
*Margaret Atwood on Twitter*
Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature
*Ian McEwan*
[Elif Shafak] joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith,
Monica Ali, Aamer Hussein, Andrea Levy, Hanan al-Shakyh and Leila
Aboulela, who offer us fictional glimpses of London's Others
*The Independent*
A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement
and home, faith and belief. The Island of Missing Trees is balm for
our bruised times
*David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue*
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