The Lemon Tree
Not long after Six Day War, three Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes. One cousin had the door slammed in his face, one found that his house had been converted into a school. But the third, Bashir, was met at...
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Not long after Six Day War, three Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes. One cousin had the door slammed in his face, one found that his house had been converted into a school. But the third, Bashir, was met at the door by a woman named Dalia, who invited him in.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552155144 (0552155144)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Black Swan
Pages no: 558
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
War,
Jewish,
Religion,
Politics,
Israel
This is the true story of Dalia, a Bulgarian Jew, and Bashir, a Palestinian Arab. Both were uprooted from their homes for different, but related reasons; one was uprooted because of the Holocaust in Europe and the other because of the founding of the state of Israel which resulted from the heinous a...
This is the true story of Dalia, a Bulgarian Jew, and Bashir, a Palestinian Arab. Both were uprooted from their homes for different, but related reasons; one was uprooted because of the Holocaust in Europe and the other because of the founding of the state of Israel which resulted from the heinous a...
I know, this looks wicked touchy feely, but people are saying it's a really good, balanced overview of...what all has happened over in Israel / Palestine. And since I have really had a lot of trouble understanding all that, y'know, maybe this?
Originally produced for a NPR, this book chronicles two families, one Palestinian and the other Israeli, as they deal and interact with the conflict. Dalia's family has, in fact, moved into the house that Bashir's family owned. The book is about the struggle of both Dalia and Bashir to come to ter...
Just finished this book and it is a fantastic read and a great insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, For anyone interested in understanding the conflict that is going on I think this is a great book to start with. However I did find parts of the book tedious and that is why I gave it four ...