The island of the lost trees - Alev Shafak

Lost Trees Island Category: Novel Author: Elif Shafak Translator: Ahmed Hassan Al-Muaini "Once upon a time, in the aforementioned story, on the far side of the Mediterranean Sea, there was an island that travelers, pilgrims, merchants, and knights of the holy wars loved passionately. They were so captivated by its beauty and azure waters that they either could not bear to part from it or tried to drag it with strong ropes to their countries. Perhaps it is merely a legend. But legends only exist to tell us what has slipped from the memory of history." A Greek and a Turkish person, their love grows on the land of Cyprus in 1974 AD, but the logic of war leaves nothing untouched but destruction or division. They part ways, meet again, and then separate, but history refuses to do otherwise than impose itself on the present.