The Lemon Tree (Young Readers’ Edition) : An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

By Sandy Tolan

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ISBN: 9781547603947

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Binding: Hardback

Number of Pages: 208

Publication Date: 02-Feb-21

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The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.

“Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible.”–School Library Journal

In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old.

On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan’s extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.

Sandy Tolan is the author of three books, including the international bestseller The Lemon Tree, and has reported from 40 countries, focusing on the intersection of land, identity, the environment and the global economy. Expertise: Ethics, Social Justice. Research and Practice Areas: Civic Engagement and Social Justice.

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The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. "Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible."--School Library Journal In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old. On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan's extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.