In The Library of Nicosia, Christy Lefteri, international bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and Songbirds, returns to Cyprus, the island her family fled after the war, to explore a community riven by conflict, and the acts of courage that lie at the heart of what it is to love.
Turkish Yasemin and Greek Nicos are in the first flush of love when they are driven apart by the brutal war. Yasemin flees when her father's bookshop is burned to the ground. Salvaging what he can from the ruins, Nicos and local cafe owner Vassos create a library beneath the militarised Green Zone which divides the island in two.
Tended by Vassos, the library offers a secret meeting place for those separated by war. Friends, family and lovers communicate via notes smuggled out in books.
Sent out into the world, one book contains a promise: that each year on the same day, Nicos will wait for Yasemin in the library. But as time moves on, will that promise bring the lovers home to each other?
Genre: Romance
Turkish Yasemin and Greek Nicos are in the first flush of love when they are driven apart by the brutal war. Yasemin flees when her father's bookshop is burned to the ground. Salvaging what he can from the ruins, Nicos and local cafe owner Vassos create a library beneath the militarised Green Zone which divides the island in two.
Tended by Vassos, the library offers a secret meeting place for those separated by war. Friends, family and lovers communicate via notes smuggled out in books.
Sent out into the world, one book contains a promise: that each year on the same day, Nicos will wait for Yasemin in the library. But as time moves on, will that promise bring the lovers home to each other?
Genre: Romance
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