The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | Sandy Tolan

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | Sandy Tolan | The Lemon Tree

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The Lemon Tree: An...

	The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East Sandy Tolan Bloomsbury USA, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 66 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

This is a fascinating account of a house in al-Ramlah,Palestine that was built by an Arab family. Shortly after the Partition, in July of 1948,they were expelled by the Israeli army. In October of 1948 that same house was subsequently occupied by a Jewish family who,in turn, had been expelled by their government from Bulgaria. Many years later, the young Arab man went back to visit his former home and was welcomed by the young Jewish woman whose family had occupied it.

The story of their friendship, amidst the trying political circumstances, humanizes the complexity of the current situation and sheds light on the Palestinians' passionate desire for a return to their homeland. Although this informative book is non-fiction, it reads like a novel.

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The Lemon Tree

This is an excellent book - extremely well documented. It affords the reader greater understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It arouses sympathy for those who have suffered injustice - also admiration for people on both sides for their resilience and determination to seek the truth. This book also inspires a feeling of hope through the compassion shown between Jew and Israeli. Would that more people could strive for understanding and peace!

good read

This is well written and easy to read book that gave me a new perspective on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict using personalized research,including historical,familial comments and quotes from both Arab and Israeli sources.

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Must read

This is both informative and engaging. A wonderful way to begin to understand the conflict in the middle east and learn the history leading up to the present day. Well researched. It reads much like a novel even though no events have been fictionalized by the author--every account was taken from real life accounts, research, interviews, etc.

A Human Face for a Long Conflict ...

This book talks about the human aspect of this long conflict, which has been silenced for long time. While most reviews concentrated about the political interpretation of the story and the author, this is simply a true story. What this story tells us, is that we can find a capacity to accept each other, even if our national and political views are mutually exclusive.
I do believe that granting the palestnians the right of return to their original towns and cities will provide the only peaceful solution to this conflict. All other proposals dance around peace but won't secure it.

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