Das Flüstern der Feigenbäume

The young lovers Defne and Kostas are only allowed to meet in secret - she is Turkish, he is Greek, and there is civil war in Cyprus. When they are separated by the unrest, they have no idea that years later they will be reunited. In a new life, on a new island.

Booker Prize-nominated author Elif Shafak interweaves the past with the present in this profound and tender novel about belonging and identity, pain and hope.