The island of the missing trees by Elif Shafak is a historical fiction partly set during the Cyprian civil war. It’s about two teenagers, Greek and Turkish who against all odds fall in love and get separated from each other. We get multiple point of views, one from during the war in the 70s, one in the early 2000s, late 2010s and from a fig tree who has witnessed the best and the worst times of their live. 

I really enjoyed this book, I didn’t really and still don’t know much about the Cyprian civil war and anything that goes along with it. Elif Shafak is my favourite author and I aspire to be like her one day… just with fantasy books. Elif has a way with words which I can’t quite describe myself.The fig tree added a unique perspective but at times became a bit too much, I dont know if I missed something but I didn’t get the whole nerative of the tree being on love with Kostas and later the tree becomes the symbolic version of his daughter… other than that I loved this book, I cried, I laughed every emotion I posses came through while reading this. I give this book 4/5 stars