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The Lemon TreeSandy Tolan
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The Lemon Tree

362 pagesFirst published 200610 editions
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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

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
HardcoverBloomsbury Children's Books20202089781547603947
EditionPenguin Random House2009—9781407067308
EditionPenguin Random House2008—9781407036281
EditionTransworld Publishers Limited20085609780552155144
EbookRandom House Publishing Group2008—9781407033617
EditionPenguin Random House2008—9781407036274
PaperbackBantam Press20073209780593057469
PaperbackBloomsbury USA20073629781596913431
EditionBloomsbury20063629781582343433
EditionBloomsbury Publishing USA——9781547607563
Palestinian ArabsArab-Israeli conflictIsraelisNonfictionBiographyHistoryForced migrationPalestinian Arab Refugees