Trees – majestic, mysterious and, as we are beginning to understand, wonderfully sophisticated and complex – play a powerful role in the stories we tell.
– novelists are grabbing on to new narrative possibilities.
"In this book, I was ... interested in how trees deal with traumas, for instance wildfires [drought]," Elif Shafak told The Book Show. This tree plays a vital role in Melissa Lucashenko's funny and heartbreaking novel, which won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2019. For nearly 90 years, the Faraway Tree books have delighted children – and adults too. Australian author Andy Griffiths cites the Faraway Tree as direct inspiration for his hugely popular Treehouse series of books, created with Terry Denton.
The greengage, or plum tree, is native to Iran. It stands as a powerful symbol of the country, in a book which blends classical Persian storytelling techniques with clear-eyed accounts of atrocities committed in the years after the Islamic Revolution.
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