17/08/2024
The Island of missing trees by is a historical fiction which is set on the island of Cyprus during the civil war with chapters flipping between the present day and the 1970s where the present day chapters are from the mmc's daughter's pov and the days from the 70s are written from a fig tree's pov, yes you read that right, from a tree's pov and this tree really grows on you.
A tale of love, war, ethnical differences, and loss. Something that really stood out to me was how the book talks about ecological loss, the loss of plants and animals, in times of war, something that is often not paid enough attention to in stories centered around war.
The one thing that I did not like was the constant mention of 1$rael, which is why I decided to rate this 4/5.
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