The Island of Missing Trees
Significance of Cyprus?
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Cyprus symbolizes home to Defne. Although Kostas is also from Cyprus, he is not as strongly attached to it as Defne is. Defne carries the weight of her alternately traumatic and joyous memories of Cyprus with her to England.