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The Lemon Tree (Paperback)
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The Lemon Tree (Paperback)
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List price R368
Loot Price R308
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In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young
Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They
were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from
which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty
years earlier. One cousin had the door slammed in his face, one
found that his old house had been converted into a school. But the
third, Bashir, was met at the door by a young woman named Dalia,
who invited him in... This poignant encounter is the starting point
for the story of two families - one Arab, one Jewish - which spans
the fraught modern history of the region. In the lemon tree his
father planted in the backyard of his childhood home, Bashir sees a
symbol of occupation; Dalia, who arrived in 1948 as an infant with
her family, as a fugitive from Bulgaria, sees hope for a people
devastated by the Holocaust. Both are inevitably swept up in the
fates of their people and the stories of their lives form a
microcosm of more than half a century of Israeli-Palestinian
history. What began as a simple meeting between two young people
grew into a dialogue lasting four decades. The Lemon Tree offers a
much needed human perspective on this seemingly intractable
conflict and reminds us not only of all that is at stake, but also
of all that is possible.
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