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Among the Almond Trees - A Palestinian Memoir (Hardcover)
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Among the Almond Trees - A Palestinian Memoir (Hardcover)
Series: The Arab List
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Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
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A poetically written and bitterly sweet memoir about nature, death,
life in Palestine, and the universal concept of home. Palestinian
writer Hussein Barghouthi was in his late forties when he was
diagnosed with lymphoma. He had feared it was HIV, so when the
cancer diagnosis was confirmed, he left the hospital feeling a
bitter joy because his wife and son would be spared. The
bittersweetness of this reaction characterizes the alternating
moods of narration and reflection that distinguish this meditative
memoir, Among the Almond Trees. Barghouthi's way of dealing with
finality is to return to memories of childhood in the village of
his birth in central Palestine, where the house in which he grew up
is surrounded by almond and fig orchards. He takes many healing
walks in the moonlit shadows of the trees, where he observes
curious foxes, dancing gazelles, a badger with an unearthly cry, a
weasel, and a wild boar with its young-a return not only to the
house but to nature itself. The author decides to build a house
where he would live with his wife and son, in whom he sees a
renewal of life. The realization of his impending death also urges
him to vocalize this experience, and he relates the progress of the
disease at infrequent intervals. And, ultimately, he details the
imaginative possibility of a return to life-to the earth, where he
would be buried among the almond trees.
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