The Island of Missing Trees
Turkish novelist, born 1971.
The Island of Missing Trees is a 2021 novel by Elif Shafak. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2021.
On 2 of the 11 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Elif Shafak
- First published
- 2021
- Length
- 368 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2021
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2022
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Migration and identity, Love story, War and conflict
Is The Island of Missing Trees worth reading?
2 of the 11 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2021) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2022) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Island of Missing Trees
The edition we link to is the Penguin paperback (2022), 368 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin (paperback, 2022)
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780241988725
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Island of Missing Trees
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work