The Lemon Tree : An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (CD-Audio)

from dchaikin

28. The Lemon Tree : An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by [Sandy Tolan (2006, 352 page library Hardcover, read Apr 14-26) The story of a kind of friendship between a Palestinian resistance leader, Bashir, and an Israeli Jew, Dalia, who grew up in the home he was evicted from in 194...

from Scribble.Orca

Fairly meticulously researched. What is refreshing in this madness is that Tolan tells the story through the eyes of real people and lets the reader decide what to think - of course the subjectivity is present in Tolan's choice of which stories to tell, but he makes a very brave and thorough atte...

from LynnB

An interesting read about a Bulgarian Jewish woman whose family emigrated to Israel in the 1940s and a Palestian man, about her own age, whose house her family lives in. Bashir and his family fled their home during the war and they now live in the occupied West Bank. One day, he decides to visit ...

from jothebookgirl

In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. Not knowing what expect, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia A...

from skf

Having only heard the pro-Israeli point of view and knowing I'd be visiting a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, I was looking for something to tell me the other side of the story. I felt like this book was very balanced telling the story of a difficult situation--Israel/Palestine. Maybe a Pal...