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

Synopsis

A national book critics circle award finalist“extraordinary . a sweeping history of the palestinian-israeli conundrum . highly readable and evocative. ” – the washington postthe tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one israeli and one palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the middle east – with an updated afterword by the author. In 1967, bashir khairi, a twenty-five-year-old palestinian, journeyed to israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier.