La isla del árbol perdido

In a convulsive 1974, while the Turkish army occupies the north of Cyprus, Kostas, a Christian Greek, and Defne, a Muslim Turk, meet secretly under the blackened beams of the Happy Fig Tree tavern, where strings of garlic, onions and and peppers. There, away from the din of war, a fig tree grows through a cavity in the ceiling, a witness to the love of the two young men, but also to their misunderstandings, the destruction of Nicosia and the tragic separation of the lovers. Decades later, in north London, Ada Kazantzakis has just lost her mother. At sixteen, she has never visited the island where her parents were born and she is desperate to unravel years of secrets, division and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus carica that grows in the garden of her house.