The Island of the Lost Tree, by Elif Shafak

The Island of the Lost Tree novel

Every tree has its fruit. From the apple tree with its ancient temptations, enough to throw us out of paradise, to the common fig tree with its uncommon fruits loaded with symbolism between the erotic and the sacred, depending on how you look at it and, above all, depending on who is looking at it... A story in the …

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The diplomatic career and literature seems a magical consequence, a derivative that makes the traveled children of these international professionals, storytellers and chroniclers with that curd of migration as a destination until maturity. From Isabel Allende to Carmen Posadas ... In the case of ...

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