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The English Language LGBT Book Club has launched an LGBT Sci-Fi book club group, that will meet once a month.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>LGBT Sci-Fi & Fantasy group of the English Language LGBT Book Club Zurich, will discuss this book today:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/u>„The Island of Missing Trees“ by Elif Shafak
A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
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Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he\u2019s searching for lost love.<\/p>\n

Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited — her only connection to her family\u2019s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.<\/p>\n

A moving, beautifully written and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak\u2019s best work yet.

<\/i>**<\/b>The event takes place in the rooms of the Regenbogenhaus, which is open from 15h00-19h00 on Wednesdays. You’re welcome to visit the library, before the book discussion in the House of Color
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**Reminder:<\/b>\u00a0The Sci-Fi & Fantasy books group meets monthly, and has an initial limit of 12 person (due to venue size at the Regenbogenhaus).<\/p>\n

The Sci-Fi Fantasy group also has a separate Whatsapp Group chat, and Excel sheet for suggesting and voting on books to read.

Suggest books and vote here<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n

As space is limited, it is best toregister on the meetup app, where we will also have a waiting list in case morepeople sign up than we have space for. Register here<\/a>.

Die Bibliothek ist ein Angebot der\u00a0HAZ – Queer Z\u00fcrich<\/a>\u00a0im Regenbogenhaus.
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