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The Lemon TreeSandy Tolan

The Lemon Tree

2006362 pages
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The true story of a friendship spanning religious divisions and four decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.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…

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Editions

10 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2020
    Bloomsbury Children's Books · 208 pages · 9781547603947
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    Random House Publishing Group · 9781407033617
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Bloomsbury USA · 362 pages · 9781596913431
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Bantam Press · 320 pages · 9780593057469
  • Other · English · 2009
    Lemon Tree
    Penguin Random House · 9781407067308
  • Other · English · 2008
    Lemon Tree
    Transworld Publishers Limited · 560 pages · 9780552155144
Palestinian ArabsArab-Israeli conflictIsraelisNonfictionBiographyHistoryForced migrationPalestinian Arab Refugees